I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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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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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?
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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 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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