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 HAMMARSKJOLD
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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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