Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
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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.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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.
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.
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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