The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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