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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.
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The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.
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On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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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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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
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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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It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
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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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