Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

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

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

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

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.

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

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

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

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

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.

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.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

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

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

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.