Happiness Quote by Dag Hammarskjold

“Pray that your loneliness spurs you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

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“Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all?”

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Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all,…

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For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which…

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Friendship needs no words.

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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

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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…

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I have only my own burden to bear.

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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept whatcan be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles…

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I never discuss discussions.

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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will…

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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…

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