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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

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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

Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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

Command Duty Give Humiliate Impose Life Live Position Recieve Right
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Death Fulfilment Make Road Seek
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Belive Beyond Cease Day Deity Die God Illuminate Live Our Personal Wonder
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

Avoid Contrary Course Desire Destiny History Human Implies Meaning Reason Something World
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Create Play Safe Security Utmost World
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

Believe Forgive Oneself Ourselves Work
It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Allegation Brought Establishment Evidence Longer Order Support
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Height How Measure Mountain never Reach Top Until
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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Abandon Error Peace Progress Pursuit Relax Setback Success Trail
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

Animal Ask Attend Crave God Human Prayer
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Die Enough Find Into Live Loneliness Pray Something
I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Discuss Discussion never
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Fear Freedom Human Right Philosophy Sais Sum Whole
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
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

Anguish Bear Burden Loneliness Make Own Share

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