Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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

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  Thanks, Anticipation, Has Beens

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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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• 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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• What you must dare: is to be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Individuality, Daring

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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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• 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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• 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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• '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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• 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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• 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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• Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

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  Jobs, Military, Soldier

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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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• 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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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

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  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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

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  Birthday, Kindness, Self

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• When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

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  Grateful, Light, Self

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• You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

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  Life, Learning, Knowledge

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

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  Character, Important, Behavior

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