Quotes of Dag Hammarskjöld - somelinesforyou

“ Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Never, ‘for the sake of peace and quiet,’ deny your own experience or convictions. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Never, ‘for the sake of peace and quiet,’ deny your own experience or convictions. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The UN wasn’t created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ 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

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

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ If only I may grow firmer, simpler-quieter, warmer. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

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

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ 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

“ For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ 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. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible- not to have to run away. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ 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

“ Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold
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