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Dag Hammarskjold quotes about giving

Swedish Diplomat July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961

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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. Dag Hammarskjold
When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover. Dag Hammarskjold
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. Dag Hammarskjold
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands. Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold quote: "Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate..."
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. Dag Hammarskjold
Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform the mirror into a doorway? Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold quote: "Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it..."
Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all? Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold quote: "It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual..."
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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