In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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