The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. — Dag Hammarskjold Hell Copy Share Image
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. — Dag Hammarskjold God Copy Share Image
He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. — Dag Hammarskjold Garden Copy Share Image
“pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to love for, great enough to die for.” — Dag Hammarskjold Loneliness Copy Share Image
For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes! — Dag Hammarskjold Come Copy Share Image
The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one. — Dag Hammarskjold Commitment Copy Share Image
“For all that has been, thanks; to all that will be, yes.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Gratitude Copy Share Image
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. — Dag Hammarskjold Heard 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 Doorway 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 Affinity 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 Accidental 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 Command 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 Be grateful Copy Share Image
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play… — Dag Hammarskjold Animal 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 Answering 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 Accepting 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 Faith 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 Body Copy Share Image
“The 'mystical experience'. Always here and now - in that freedom which is one with distance in that stillness which is born… — Dag Hammarskjöld Freedom 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 Beam Copy Share Image
“That our pains and longings are thousandfold and can be anesthetized in a thousand different ways is as commonplace a truth as… — Dag Hammarskjöld Different ways Copy Share Image
It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is… — Dag Hammarskjold Able Copy Share Image
“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.… — Dag Hammarskjöld Humble 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 Anchors Copy Share Image
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his… — Dag Hammarskjold Ache Copy Share Image
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge,… — Dag Hammarskjold All that remains Copy Share Image
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away. — Dag Hammarskjold Adversity and strength Copy Share Image
