Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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