hammarskjold Quotes
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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
“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
“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
- Dag Hammarskjold
“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”
- Dag Hammarskjold
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
- Dag Hammarskjold
“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
“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
“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
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
- Dag Hammarskjold
“Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.”
- Dag Hammarskjold