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Dag Hammarskjold quotes about life

Swedish Diplomat July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961

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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. Dag Hammarskjold
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
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is... Dag Hammarskjold
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life,... Dag Hammarskjold
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold quote: "Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only..."
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold quote: "Life only demands from you the strength you possess."
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold quote: "In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which..."
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. Dag Hammarskjold
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. Dag Hammarskjold
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. Dag Hammarskjold

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