Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTo forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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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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