"On the bookshelf of life, God is a……" — Dag Hammarskjold
"On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted."
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Dag Hammarskjold
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117 Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold has 117 quotes on this site.
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Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of…
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain,…
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Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
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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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Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other,…
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We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
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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…
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Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor…
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The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political…
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must…
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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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