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.”

“I never discuss discussions.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.”

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

“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.”

“In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.”

“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.”