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Dag Hammarskjold (Diplomat)

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
— Dag Hammarskjold loneliness
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
— Dag Hammarskjold you
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.
— Dag Hammarskjold war
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
— Dag Hammarskjold war
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
— Dag Hammarskjold destiny
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
— Dag Hammarskjold words
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
— Dag Hammarskjold philosophy
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
— Dag Hammarskjold good
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 happiness
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 you
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
— Dag Hammarskjold strength
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.
— Dag Hammarskjold success
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 loneliness
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 art
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 dream
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.
— Dag Hammarskjold believe
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
— Dag Hammarskjold soul
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
— Dag Hammarskjold art
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
— Dag Hammarskjold peace
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
— Dag Hammarskjold world
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
— Dag Hammarskjold peace
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.
— Dag Hammarskjold life
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
— Dag Hammarskjold god
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
— Dag Hammarskjold self
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
— Dag Hammarskjold faith

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