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Dag Hammarskjold - From the Activity category:
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Aging category:
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Children category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Choices category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Communication category:
I never discuss discussions. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Complaining category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Conviction category:
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Critics category:
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Destiny category:
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Destiny category:
Destiny is something not to be 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 Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Fear category:
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Friendship category:
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Gratitude category:
For all that has been - Thanks. For all that shall be - Yes. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Growth category:
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Health category:
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Humanity category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Insecurity category:
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Journey category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Journey category:
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 Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Leadership category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Life category:
- journal entry 1925-1930, published in Markings, 1964...
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Lines category:
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? (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Listening category:
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Loneliness category:
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Loneliness category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Peace category:
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Philosophy category:
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Play category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Politics category:
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Possibilities category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Power category:
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Prayer category:
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Questions category:
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Responsibility category:
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Solitude category:
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Time category:
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. (Dag Hammarskjold)
Dag Hammarskjold - From the Wonder category:
God does not die on the day 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 of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason. (Dag Hammarskjold)
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