We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. — Dag Hammarskjold Inspirational Copy Share Image
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. — Dag Hammarskjold Death Copy Share Image
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold Insecurity Copy Share Image
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold Inspirational Copy Share Image
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold Abasement Copy Share Image
“Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that… — Dag Hammarskjold Destiny Copy Share Image
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their… — Dag Hammarskjold Boundaries Copy Share Image
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one… — Dag Hammarskjold Dreams Copy Share Image
Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done.… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the… — Dag Hammarskjold Darkness Copy Share Image
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if… — Dag Hammarskjold Bridges Copy Share Image
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among… — Dag Hammarskjold Animal Copy Share Image
“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Human nature Copy Share Image
When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“My home drove me into the wilderness. Few look for me. Few hear me.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. — Dag Hammarskjold Life Copy Share Image
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. — Dag Hammarskjold Fear Copy Share Image
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. — Dag Hammarskjold Experience Copy Share Image
“A human intimacy--free from the earth but blessing the earth.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Intimacy Copy Share Image
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? — Dag Hammarskjold Desire Copy Share Image
“Too tired for company, You seek a solitude You are too tired to fill.” — Dag Hammarskjold Business Copy Share Image
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. — Dag Hammarskjold Attention Copy Share Image
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at… — Dag Hammarskjold Aging Copy Share Image
At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from… — Dag Hammarskjold Friendship Copy Share Image
Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was-… — Dag Hammarskjold Body Copy Share Image
