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 HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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