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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.
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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.
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.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Profession
Diplomat
BirthDate
29 July, 1905
DeathDate
18 September, 1961
Country
Sweden
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