Dag Hammarskjöld quotes - page 4

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. View quote
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Only one feat is possible: not to have run away. View quote
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It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. View quote
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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. View quote
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Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. View quote
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Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth. View quote
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Friendship needs no words. View quote
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We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. View quote
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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? View quote
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It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one. View quote
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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 born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism. View quote
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On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. View quote
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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. View quote
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. View quote
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The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. View quote
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Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... View quote
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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable. View quote
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Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? View quote
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The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
I have only my own burden to bear. View quote
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. View quote
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They are our tools. We fashioned them. We use them. It is our responsibility to remedy any flaws there may be in them. View quote
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The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. View quote
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