When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in… — 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
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 Hammarskjold 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 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
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold 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 Copy Share Image
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. — 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 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