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It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Action(s)
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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Confidence
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Criticism
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Death
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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Tomorrow we shall meet,
Death and I -.
And he shall thrust his sword
Into one who is wide awake.
-Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, p. 31
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Enlightenment, The
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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 I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Fate & Destiny
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Forgiveness
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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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.
-Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964
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Friends
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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Friendship needs no words...
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Goals
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Integrity
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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
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Journeys
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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.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Life
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Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
-Dag Hammarskjold, Markings: Diary of Dag Hammarskjold
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Loneliness
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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Maturity
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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
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Peace
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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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.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Praise
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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The great commitment is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one -- and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart. You thought you were indifferent to praise for achievements which you would not yourself have counted to your credit, or that, if you should be tempted to feel flattered, you would always remember that the praise far exceeded what the events justified. You thought yourself indifferent -- until you felt your jealousy flare up at his naive attempts to make himself important, and your self-conceit stood exposed. Concerning the hardness of the heart -- and its littleness -- let me read with open eyes the book my days are writing, and learn.
-Dag Hammarskjold, Markings
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Books by and about Dag Hammarskjold