Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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

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

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.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

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.

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

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.

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

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.

We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

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

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

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

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.