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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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