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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.
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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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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
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It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
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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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To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
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The longest journey is the journey inward.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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At some moment I did answer Yes to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
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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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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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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.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
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