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Dag Hammarskjold
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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
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Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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 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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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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He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
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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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I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
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Each day the first day: Each day a life.
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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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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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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 longest journey is the journey inward.
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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