“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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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.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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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.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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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.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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