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The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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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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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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He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
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Life yields only to the conqueror.
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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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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.
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I have only my own burden to bear.
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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.
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You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds
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Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Each day the first day: Each day a life.
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