Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld

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