Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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The 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.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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.
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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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