Dag Hammarskjold Quotes & Quotations
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. - Dag Hammarskjold
You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give and possess the light as the lens does. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. - Dag Hammarskjold
The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. - Dag Hammarskjold
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labour diligently for the salvation of the masses. - 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
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. - Dag Hammarskjold
The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. - Dag Hammarskjold
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. - Dag Hammarskjold
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. - Dag Hammarskjold
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. - Dag Hammarskjold
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. - Dag Hammarskjold
If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency, You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. - Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words, it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjold
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. - Dag Hammarskjold
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. - Dag Hammarskjold
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. - Dag Hammarskjold
Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. - Dag Hammarskjold
I don't know who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer 'Yes' to someone or something. And from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. - Dag Hammarskjold
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behaviour that he became the tool of evil. - Dag Hammarskjold
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. - Dag Hammarskjold
You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give and possess the light as the lens does. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. - Dag Hammarskjold
The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. - Dag Hammarskjold
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labour diligently for the salvation of the masses. - Dag Hammarskjold
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. - Dag Hammarskjold
The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. - Dag Hammarskjold
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. - Dag Hammarskjold
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. - Dag Hammarskjold
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. - Dag Hammarskjold
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. - Dag Hammarskjold
If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency, You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. - Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words, it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjold
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. - Dag Hammarskjold
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. - Dag Hammarskjold
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. - Dag Hammarskjold
Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. - Dag Hammarskjold
I don't know who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer 'Yes' to someone or something. And from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. - Dag Hammarskjold
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behaviour that he became the tool of evil. - Dag Hammarskjold