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?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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 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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Your 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.
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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.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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