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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Die Enough Finding Great Live Loneliness May Pray Something Spur You Your

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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Before Down Eye Far Find Fixed Ground He His Horizon Keeps Look Never Next Next Step Only Right Right Road Road Step Taking Test Who Will Your

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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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Topics: Choose Destiny Frame Our Ours Permitted Put

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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

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Topics: Diligently Give Individual Labor Masses More Noble Salvation Than Yourself

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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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Topics: Anguish Delivered Friendship Loneliness Needs No Words Solitude Words

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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

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Topics: Grow May Only Quieter Simpler Warmer

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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

Topics: Believe Beyond Cease Daily Day Deity Die Does God Lives Our Our Lives Personal Radiance Reason Renewed Source Steady Which Wonder

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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Again Answer Broken Child Clean Dream Forgiveness Made Miracle Which Whole

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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

~Dag Hammarskjold

Topics: Could Fear Freedom Freedom From Human Human Rights Philosophy Rights Said Sum Up Whole

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Diplomat

Born: July 29th, 1905

Died: September 18th, 1961

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