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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Before Down Fix Horizon Keep Look never Next Step Talk
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
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Believe Decency Least Should Survive
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Die Disturb Favor Function Grant Made Party Social Tiptoe
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
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Convenience Deny Experience never Own Pieve Quiet Sake
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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Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Defeat End Few Progress Pursuit Victory Year
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
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Draft God One Thirsty Vessel
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Answer Away Broken Clean Forgiveness Made Miracle Soiled
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Alone Assume Become Duty Essential Integrity Moment Part Responsibility Suspect Task
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
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Death Fulfilment Make Road Seek
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Better Faithfully Hear Listen More Outside Sound Voice

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