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history

Dag Hammarskjold | history

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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history

Dag Hammarskjold | history

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

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happiness

Dag Hammarskjold | happiness

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.

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great

Dag Hammarskjold | great

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

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God

Dag Hammarskjold | god

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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friendship

Dag Hammarskjold | friendship

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

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freedom

Dag Hammarskjold | freedom

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

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forgiveness

Dag Hammarskjold | forgiveness

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.

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Fear

Dag Hammarskjold | fear

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

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experience

Dag Hammarskjold | experience

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

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