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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Belive Beyond Cease Day Deity Die God Illuminate Live Our Personal Wonder

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