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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
-
-
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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.
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD