The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a… — Dag Hammarskjold Balance Copy Share Image
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my… — Dag Hammarskjold Anguish Copy Share Image
“You are your own god – and are surprised when you find that the wolf pack is hunting you across the desolate… — Dag Hammarskjöld Wolf Copy Share Image
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. — Dag Hammarskjold Angelic Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. — Dag Hammarskjold Flower Copy Share Image
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence… — Dag Hammarskjold Decision Copy Share Image
It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it,… — Dag Hammarskjold Demand Copy Share Image
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on… — Dag Hammarskjold Achievement Copy Share Image
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome… — Dag Hammarskjold Death Copy Share Image
The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the… — Dag Hammarskjold Bridges Copy Share Image
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Animal Copy Share Image
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and… — Dag Hammarskjold Aliens Copy Share Image
In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through… — Dag Hammarskjold Calm Copy Share Image
You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well… — Dag Hammarskjold Bees Copy Share Image
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. — Dag Hammarskjold Communication Copy Share Image
You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's… — Dag Hammarskjold Calm Copy Share Image
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to… — Dag Hammarskjold Animal Copy Share Image
“The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents -- contents which… — Dag Hammarskjold Happiness Copy Share Image
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear,… — Dag Hammarskjold Fear Copy Share Image
The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. — Dag Hammarskjold Big shoes Copy Share Image
The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable. — Dag Hammarskjold Book Copy Share Image
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird… — Dag Hammarskjold Artist Copy Share Image
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles… — Dag Hammarskjold Duty Copy Share Image
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the… — Dag Hammarskjold Adventure Copy Share Image
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. — Dag Hammarskjold Individual Copy Share Image
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. — Dag Hammarskjold Dignity Copy Share Image
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have… — Dag Hammarskjold Choice Copy Share Image
