Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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.
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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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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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 only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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