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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDConstant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDestiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDForgiveness 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever 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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