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On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
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You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.
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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
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Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race. To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.
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The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.
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Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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I have only my own burden to bear.
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He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
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