Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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• Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in…
• When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and…
• Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
• The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
• Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been…
• We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
• 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…
• 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…
• The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on…
• Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty -…
• We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
• Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.
• Do not seek death. Death will find you,
• Perhaps a great love is never returned.
• What you must dare: is to be yourself.
• 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…
• You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you…
• So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in…
• In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed…

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