If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDo not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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 for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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