Dag Hammarskjld Famous Quotes
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
"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."
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."
"You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does."
"You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for"
"If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means."
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
"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."
".....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget"
"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character."
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
The longest journey is the journey inward.
"Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice."
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others.
"For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes."
Dag Hammarskjld Quotations
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Woody Allen
Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
Marchioness Townsend
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Danish proverb
"Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others."
Marquis de Sade
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
W Somerset Maugham
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has
Rene Descartes
"Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
John Morley
Be bold and the mighty will follow.
Ted Walters
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
Dudley Moore
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Franois Auguste Ren Rodin