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From Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
- 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…
- 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…
- At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
- The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world,…
- 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…
- Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness --…
- Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
- Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
- 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- 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…
- It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
- The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over…
- 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…
- Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no…
- Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
- When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way…
- When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal…
- You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame…
- 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…
- Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of…
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