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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Command Duty Give Humiliate Impose Life Live Position Recieve Right

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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Firmer Grow Only Quiter Simpler Warmer Way
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Believe Forgive Oneself Ourselves Work
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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Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Answer Away Broken Clean Forgiveness Made Miracle Soiled
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Death Fulfilment Make Road Seek
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Create Play Safe Security Utmost World
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Anguish Deliver Friendship Loneliness Need Solitude Word
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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Before Down Fix Horizon Keep Look never Next Step Talk
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Better Faithfully Hear Listen More Outside Sound Voice
Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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Grow Hand Life Must One Rather Small Wrtech
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Draft God One Thirsty Vessel
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Child Cloud Grant Happiness Mate Maturity One Other Play Thing
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Believe Decency Least Should Survive
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Convenience Deny Experience never Own Pieve Quiet Sake
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.
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Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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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Animal Ask Attend Crave God Human Prayer

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