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 HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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