Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag HammarskjoldRead
For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!
Interpretation
This quote expresses gratitude for the past and optimism for the future.
Dag Hammarskjold's quote reflects a deep sense of appreciation for life's experiences, acknowledging both the challenges and joys that have shaped one's existence. It emphasizes a positive outlook towards the future, suggesting that acceptance and readiness for what is yet to come is essential for personal growth and resilience.
In practice
This quote can be used during a graduation speech to encourage students to be thankful for their past experiences and excited for their futures.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.
In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.
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.
The self cannot be self without other selves.
In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
Visit your soul; don't visit your past.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.
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