All Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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Nature
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Friendship
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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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.
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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarskjold
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