I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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