Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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 cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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