Dag Hammarskjold Quotes About Life
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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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Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was- Ready at any moment to gather everything Into one simple sacrifice.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Life yields only to the conqueror.
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You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.
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