I am the vessel. The draught is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
¶ (Attributed)
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Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish statesman, UN Secretary-General
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
¶ (Attributed)
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away.
¶ (Attributed)
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
¶ Markings (1951)
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
¶ Markings (1964)
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.
¶ Quoted in Time (27 Jun 1955)
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