Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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• For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

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  Thanks, Anticipation, Has Beens

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• The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

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  Humanity, Paradise, Hell

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• Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

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  Peace, Men, Justice

  UN Press Release SG/360, December 22, 1953.

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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 answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

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  Meaningful, Self, Goal

  Markings (1964)

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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 our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

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  God, Believe, Doe

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Healthy

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• Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

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  Faith, Morning, Inspiration

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• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

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  Being Yourself, Moving Forward, Inspiration

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

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  Book, Fall, Humility

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• For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

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  Relaxation, Has Beens

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• What you must dare: is to be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Individuality, Daring

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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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  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

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• You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

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  Weed, Truth, Animal

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• Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

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  Spiritual, World, Renaissance

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• We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

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  Fun, Nice, People

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• Friendship needs no words.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Silence

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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

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  Fear, Philosophy, Rights

  In a statement on the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson, as quoted in Quote, May 20, 1956.

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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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  Life, Strength, Being Strong

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• If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

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  Birthday, Kindness, Self

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• At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.

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  Self, Anchors, Greed

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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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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Voice

  "Sacred Seasonings". Book by Sherri Purdom, 2003.

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• In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.

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  Dream, Wall, Fall

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• It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

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  Evil, Tools, Firsts

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• You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

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  Dare, Repeats, All Things

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• Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.

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  Peace, World

  UN Press Release SG/360, December 22, 1953.

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