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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDConstant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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