Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

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 illuminated by the steady radiance renewed daily of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.

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

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Is life so wretched? Isnt it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

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

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Forgiveness is the answer to the childs dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.