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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
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Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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Freedom
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You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.
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Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.
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It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
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Life yields only to the conqueror.
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Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It gives us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.
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Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...
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Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
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For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
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Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.
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To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
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In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
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