Dag Hammarskjold quote: "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."

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon ...
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit...
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their prot...
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a ...
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe wi...
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away...
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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...
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United ...
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross -- even when it is leading...
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Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality ...
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Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursui...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
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Tomorrow we shall meet,
Death and I -.
And he shall thrust his sword
Into one who is wide ...
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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions li...
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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-...
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Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give...
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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...
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The great commitment is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one -- and can all too easily shu...
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salv...
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The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see ...
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding o...
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed...
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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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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is p...
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole ag...
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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted...
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I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember...
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which...
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of oth...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions
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The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may hav...
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be livin...
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He broke fresh ground-because, and only because, he had the courage to go ahead without asking wheth...
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it ...
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradi...
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living ...
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegati...
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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...
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I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answ...
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We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
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The longest journey is the journey inward.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run awa...
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For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If...
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Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of trut...
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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no wor...
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Friendship needs no words...
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole a...
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The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its c...
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a ...
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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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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? Y...
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The longest journey of any person is the journey inward
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superio...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe wi...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Commun...
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for ...
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember ans...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddle...
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has no impact on most of the people outside the General Assembly and this building.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's...
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Creative people have to be fed from the divine source
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The more you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-ev...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdic...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, b...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions t...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whol...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared.

No...
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It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they wou...
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At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand...
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He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. Bu...
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My home drove me
into the wilderness.
Few look for me. Few hear me.
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This accidental
meeting of possibilities
calls itself I.

I ask: what am I doing...
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To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independe...
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You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the...
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When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to g...
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You are not the oil, you are not the air—merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the...
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Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is...
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole ...
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Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon him...
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the f...
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We think the creative solutions Vermont put forward would definitely help motivate other states to e...
DAG VEGA

W e support this law to demonstrate the party is serious about ending the culture of corruption in W...
DAG VEGA

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of de...
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For all that has been,
Thank you.

For all that is to come,
Yes!
DAG HAMMARSKJöLD

Everybody achieves success in life—a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lo...
DAG EKEBERG

Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 We can re...
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Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 There is ...
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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...
DAG HAMMARSKJ&OUML;LD

The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shu...
DAG HAMMARSKJ&OUML;LD

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.

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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.

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