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 HAMMARSKJOLDGod 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 HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIn the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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 HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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