Dag Hammarskjold Quotes - Page 2

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• He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

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  Weed, Garden, Plot

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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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• Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.

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  Sacrifice, Forgiving, Done

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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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  Life, Leadership, Order

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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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• Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

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  Running, Weakness, Strength In Adversity

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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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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• Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

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  Dream, Pain, Past

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• The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

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  Loyalty, Mean, Acceptance

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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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• 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.

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  Simple, Choices, Looks

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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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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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

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  Forgiveness, Feels, Presence Of God

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• Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

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  Grateful, Names, Feet

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• 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.

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  Past, Journey, Destiny

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.
  To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.

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  Men, Race, Bridges

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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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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  Life, Inspiration, Fate

  Markings (1964)

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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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• It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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  Play, Safety, Insecurity

  "Servant of Peace : A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1962.

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• When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

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  Morning, Determination, Giving

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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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  Death, Funeral, Dying

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• The longest journey is the journey inward.

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  Inspiration, Journey, Inward

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• 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.

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  Forgiveness, Dream, Children

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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