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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Human nature Copy Share Image
When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among… — Dag Hammarskjold Animal Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of… — Dag Hammarskjold Achievement Copy Share Image
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain… — Dag Hammarskjold Bits 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 Abasement Copy Share Image
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done.… — Dag Hammarskjold Break Copy Share Image
When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in… — Dag Hammarskjold Able 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… — Dag Hammarskjold Believe 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are… — Dag Hammarskjold Better 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 Acquire 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
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
Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was-… — Dag Hammarskjold Body Copy Share Image
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from… — Dag Hammarskjold Friendship 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
“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
