I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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