I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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