We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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