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Quote by Dag Hammarskjold
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possibl

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

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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. – Dag Hammarskjold

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I dont know Who — or what — put the question, I dont know when it was put. I dont even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone –or Something –and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. Its still better than high school. – Dan Savage

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death to which I would add, Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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