Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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?
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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