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
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept whatcan be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and… — Dag Hammarskjöld 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 Copy Share Image
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If… — Dag Hammarskjold 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
Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was-… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in… — Dag Hammarskjold 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 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
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which… — Dag Hammarskjold 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 Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to… — Dag Hammarskjold 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 Copy Share Image
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
“He stood erect - as a peg-top does as long as the whip keeps lashing it. He was modest - thanks to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
“Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all?” — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. — 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 others can… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept whatcan be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold 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 staked will… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
