Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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 am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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