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
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also… — Dag Hammarskjold Becoming Copy Share Image
For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes. — Dag Hammarskjold Anticipation 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 Believe 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
“Too tired for company, You seek a solitude You are too tired to fill.” — Dag Hammarskjold Business 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 Meetings 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 Humility 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 Broken Copy Share Image
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. — Dag Hammarskjold Convictions 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
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far… — Dag Hammarskjold Eye Copy Share Image
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold Insecurity Copy Share Image
“His moral lecture blazed with hate. What could have driven a child that far?” — Dag Hammarskjöld Children 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 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
“Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mist out of earshot.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Emptiness 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
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
“pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to love for, great enough to die for.” — Dag Hammarskjold Loneliness Copy Share Image
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
“A human intimacy--free from the earth but blessing the earth.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Nature 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 Daydreaming Copy Share Image
