Quotes by Dag Hammarskjöld

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

“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 body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to...”

“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 o...”

“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 child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.”

“Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.”

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess.”

“How Forgiveness Helps Us 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 again made clean.”

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

“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...”