Dag Hammarskjold
Quotations
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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.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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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.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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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.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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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.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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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.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. – Dag Hammarskjold
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