Dag Hammarskjold Quotes - Page 2

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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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• We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

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  Healing, Forget, Painful

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• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

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  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Apathy

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

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  Dream, Time, Past

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

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  Giving, Noble, Approval

  "Living in Grace : The Shift to Spiritual Perception". Book by Beca Lewis, 2002.

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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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• We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

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  Silence, Stillness

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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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• 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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  Christmas, Summer, Time

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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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• 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 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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• Friendship needs no words.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Silence

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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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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• 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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• You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

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  Creativity, Color, Space

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• To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

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  Self, Perfection, Unselfishness

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• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

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  Humility, Self, Opposites

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