Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on… — Dag Hammarskjold Achievement Copy Share Image
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held… — Dag Hammarskjold Capacity Copy Share Image
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it… — Dag Hammarskjold Counterparts 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
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness… — Dag Hammarskjold Brother 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
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to… — Dag Hammarskjold Analysis 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 Drawing Copy Share Image
“Somebody placed the shuttle in your hand: somebody who had already arranged the threads.” — Dag Hammarskjöld 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
You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the… — Dag Hammarskjold All things Copy Share Image
Pray that your loneliness spurs you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. — Dag Hammarskjold Happiness 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
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
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. — Dag Hammarskjold Life Copy Share Image
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it… — Dag Hammarskjold Bent Copy Share Image
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. — Dag Hammarskjold Critics Copy Share Image
In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through… — Dag Hammarskjold Calm Copy Share Image
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. — Dag Hammarskjold Peace Copy Share Image
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. — Dag Hammarskjold Experience 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 Self-Awareness Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. — Dag Hammarskjold Forget Copy Share Image
