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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDGod 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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