Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Dag Hammarskjold

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

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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.

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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

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