If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your 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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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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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