Small: Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
Small: Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment
Dag Hammarskjold
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies
Dag Hammarskjold
"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon
Dag Hammarskjold
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life tha
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
Small: Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them
Dag Hammarskjold
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imm
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
Small: What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own bu
Dag Hammarskjold
"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"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours
Dag Hammarskjold
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: To forgive oneself? No, that doesnt work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
Small: Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines
Dag Hammarskjold
"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: l
Dag Hammarskjold
"Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for
Dag Hammarskjold
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard
Dag Hammarskjold
"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Only he deserves power who every day justifies it
Dag Hammarskjold
"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions
Dag Hammarskjold
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was
Dag Hammarskjold
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far hor
Dag Hammarskjold
"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"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions
Dag Hammarskjold
"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he
Dag Hammarskjold
"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, Diplomat
Small: Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away
Dag Hammarskjold
"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
Small: It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidat
"It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not"
Alfred Nobel, Scientist
Small: Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age
"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age"
Alfred Nobel, Scientist
Small: If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied"
Alfred Nobel, Scientist
Small: I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to it
"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results"
Alfred Nobel, Scientist
Small: In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the
"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil
"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: The quality of the Lords church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still l
"The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven and yet that which makes heaven in
"The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over mens souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to
"To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed
"In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend
"First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt
"But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or
"That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such
"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in
"Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third
"In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly,
"For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are ang
"And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
Small: This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love
"This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist