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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'ssafe 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
Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot. — 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
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
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. — Dag Hammarskjold
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defensewhat 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
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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
For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
— 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
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
— Dag Hammarskjold
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
— 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
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
— 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
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 violenceWhether 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
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 intimacyfree from the earth but blessing the earth. — Dag Hammarskjold
The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
— 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
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
— 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
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
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
— 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
His moral lectureblazed with hate.
What could have driven a child that far? — 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 wordsdisturbed his peace
in a space that sung. — Dag Hammarskjold
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
— Dag Hammarskjold
He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words.
— Dag Hammarskjold
My home drove meinto 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
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
— Dag Hammarskjold