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He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. — Dag Hammarskjold

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? — Dag Hammarskjold

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace. — Dag Hammarskjold

Doffing the ego's
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality. — 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

God often uses a man or several different men to impact your life with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. — Dag Heward-Mills

Trees quiver in the wind,
sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot. — Dag Hammarskjold

I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag. — Hugh Jackman

Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing. — Dag Heward-Mills

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go. — Dag Heward-Mills

Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform the mirror into a doorway? — Dag Hammarskjold

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful. — Dag Hammarskjold

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler,
quieter, warmer. — Dag Hammarskjold

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense
what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. — Dag Hammarskjold

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. — Dag Hammarskjold

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity — Dag Hammarskjold

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. — Dag Hammarskjold

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. — Dag Hammarskjold

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

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. — Dag Hammarskjold

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes. — Dag Hammarskjold

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. — Dag Hammarskjold

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. — Dag Hammarskjold

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality. — Dag Hammarskjold

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. — Dag Hammarskjold

Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault. — Dag Hammarskjold

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. — Dag Hammarskjold

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. — Dag Hammarskjold

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. — Dag Hammarskjold

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. — Dag Hammarskjold

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. — Dag Hammarskjold

Too tired for company,
You seek a solitude
You are too tired to fill. — Dag Hammarskjold

Acts of violence
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing. — 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

Everybody achieves success in life - a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards — Dag Ekeberg

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away. — Dag Hammarskjold

To the past: Thanks.
To the future: Yes. — Dag Hammarskjold

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. — Dag Hammarskjold

For all that has been,
Thank you.
For all that is to come,
Yes! — Dag Hammarskjold

To be free, to rise and leave everything, without a glance back, behind. To say "yes". — Dag Hammarskjold

I never discuss discussions. — Dag Hammarskjold

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. — Dag Hammarskjold

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

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. — Dag Hammarskjold

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. — Dag Hammarskjold

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. — Dag Hammarskjold

A human intimacy
free from the earth but blessing the earth. — Dag Hammarskjold

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. — Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. — Dag Hammarskjold

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. — Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute. — Dag Hammarskjold

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth. — Dag Hammarskjold

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. — Dag Hammarskjold

I have only my own burden to bear. — Dag Hammarskjold

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. — Dag Hammarskjold

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. — Dag Hammarskjold

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. — Dag Hammarskjold

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. — Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering. — Dag Hammarskjold

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. — Dag Hammarskjold

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold

Apes. The moon woke them
round the world's navel revolved
prayer wheels of steps. — Dag Hammarskjold

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it. — Dag Hammarskjold

Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all? — Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided. — Dag Hammarskjold

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. — Dag Hammarskjold

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. — Dag Hammarskjold

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

Friendship needs no words. — Dag Hammarskjold

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. — Dag Hammarskjold

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one. — Dag Hammarskjold

His moral lecture
blazed with hate.
What could have driven a child that far? — Dag Hammarskjold

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions — Dag Hammarskjold

Somebody placed the shuttle in your hand: somebody who had already arranged the threads. — Dag Hammarskjold

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. — Dag Hammarskjold

No cracking of the whip of words
disturbed his peace
in a space that sung. — Dag Hammarskjold

Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ... — Douglas Coupland

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. — Dag Hammarskjold

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. — Dag Hammarskjold

My home drove me
into the wilderness.
Few look for me. Few hear me. — Dag Hammarskjold

Each day the first day:
Each day a life. — Dag Hammarskjold

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. — Dag Hammarskjold

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. — Dag Hammarskjold

Perhaps a great love is never returned. — Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. — Dag Hammarskjold

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. — Dag Hammarskjold