I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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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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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 Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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