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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• 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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• 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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Peace, Men, Justice

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

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• Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Healthy

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Daring

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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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Book, Fall, Humility

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Relaxation, Has Beens

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Spiritual, World, Renaissance

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

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

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  Birthday, Kindness, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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