Dag Hammarskjold famous quotes

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Nursing #Nurse #Important

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Bears

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Simple #Choices #Looks

The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being." page 58 The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them." page 62
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Past #Journey #Destiny

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Love #Life #Relationship

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Love #Life #Relationship

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Jobs #Soldier #Peacekeeping

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Faith #Morning #Inspiration

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Being Yourself #Moving Forward #Inspiration

Friendship needs no words.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Friendship #Real Friends #Silence

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Birthday #Kindness #Self

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#God #Believe #Doe

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Forgiveness #Dream #Children

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Giving #Noble #Approval

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Anorexia #Eating Disorder #Dignity

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Play #Safety #Insecurity

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Healing #Forget #Painful

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Running #Running Away

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Inspirational #Positive #Happiness

What you must dare: is to be yourself.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Being Yourself #Self #Dare

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Dream #Destiny #Past

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Thanks #Anticipation

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Dream #Pain #Destiny

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Life #Leadership #Order

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Sacrifice #Forgiving #Causality

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Believe #I Believe #Should

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Destiny #World #Mystery

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Hands #Bookshelves

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Christmas #Summer #Time

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Strength #Curves #Law

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Politics #Accepting #Heard

Do not seek death. Death will find you,
-- Dag Hammarskjold

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Grateful #Names #Feet

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. 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 #Fall #Humility

The longest journey is the journey inward.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Inspiration #Journey #Inward

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Friendship #Loneliness #Being Alone

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Death #Funeral #Dying

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Life #Strength #Being Strong

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Success #Peace #Freedom

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Fear #Philosophy #Rights

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Morning #Giving #Wish