He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. — Dag Hammarskjold Flower Copy Share Image
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“For all that has been, thanks; to all that will be, yes.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Gratitude 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 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one. — Dag Hammarskjold Commitment Copy Share Image
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it. — Dag Hammarskjold 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 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 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 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
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
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. — Dag Hammarskjold Devil 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 Copy Share Image
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold Behavior 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 Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and… — 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… — Dag Hammarskjold Compensation 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
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 Aliens 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
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Animal Copy Share Image
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
“His moral lecture blazed with hate. What could have driven a child that far?” — Dag Hammarskjöld Children Copy Share Image
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. — Dag Hammarskjold Peace Copy Share Image
“Apes. The moon woke them-- round the world's navel revolved prayer wheels of steps.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Apes Copy Share Image
“Somebody placed the shuttle in your hand: somebody who had already arranged the threads.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold Inspirational Copy Share Image
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold Abasement Copy Share Image
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“My home drove me into the wilderness. Few look for me. Few hear me.” — Dag Hammarskjöld 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
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. — Dag Hammarskjold Fear Copy Share Image
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. — Dag Hammarskjold Attention Copy Share Image
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. — Dag Hammarskjold Experience Copy Share Image
