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Each day the first day: Each day a life.

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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.
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Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...
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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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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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The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Friendship needs no words.
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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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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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It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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