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 HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I never discuss discussions.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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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.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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