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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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 HAMMARSKJOLD

Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Die Enough Find Into Live Loneliness Pray Something
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Day Deserve Every Justify Only Power
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Back Become Everything Life Longer Look Lost Neutral Point Question Stake
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Death Fulfilment Make Road Seek
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?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Body Break Contract Curve Delicate Gather Journey Meet Muscle Soul Strength Total
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Completly Diligently Give Individual Mass More Noble Salvation Yourself
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
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Firmer Grow Only Quiter Simpler Warmer Way
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Dignity Diminish Genius Indifference Kind Only Other
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Believe Decency Least Should Survive
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
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Avoid Contrary Course Desire Destiny History Human Implies Meaning Reason Something World
I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Discuss Discussion never
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Allegation Assembly Establish Few Historical Last Repeat Time Week Witness
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Alone Assume Become Duty Essential Integrity Moment Part Responsibility Suspect Task
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

Command Duty Give Humiliate Impose Life Live Position Recieve Right
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Attention Constant Major Operation Surgeon
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Convenience Deny Experience never Own Pieve Quiet Sake
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Height How Measure Mountain never Reach Top Until
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Anguish Bear Burden Loneliness Make Own Share
It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Allegation Brought Establishment Evidence Longer Order Support
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Lesiyre More Nbusy Work
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

Defeat End Few Progress Pursuit Victory Year

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