3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold 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.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold ‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold 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.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold 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.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
