Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

• What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

  Dag Hammarskjold

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  Tags in Loneliness, Makes, Share

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

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  Tags in Insecurity, Play, Create

• The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

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  Tags in Busy, Leisure

• The myths have always condemned those who “looked back.” Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

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  Tags in Back, May, Over

• 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.

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  Tags in Simple, Everything, Back

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

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  Tags in Destiny, Put, Choose

• 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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

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  Tags in Waiting, Happy, Day

• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Reputation, Goes

• To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

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  Tags in Possible, Forgive, Believe

• 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

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Must

• 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

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  Tags in Without, Living, Others

• 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.

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  Tags in Reason, Mystery, Desire, Destiny

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Strength, Men

• 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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Soiled, Again, Another, Answer, Forgiveness, Which, Whole, Broken, Made, Clean, Miracle

• Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Solitude, Words, Anguish, Delivered, Needs, Loneliness

• Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  Dag Hammarskjold

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  Tags in Abstraction, Thinking, Mankind

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Human Rights, Freedom, Philosophy

• I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Vessel

• Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• 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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in God, Life

  Tags in Death And Dying, Time

Dag Hammarskjold (54)

Birth:	29th July, 1905
Death:	18th September, 1961
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Diplomat, Economist

About

Dag Hammarskjold was born in Jönköping, Sweden. He was a Swedish diplomat and economist. The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. At the age of 47 years, 255 days, Hammarskjöld is the youngest to have held the post. He is one of only three people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize. He studied first at Katedralskolan and then at Uppsala University. By 1930, he had obtained Licentiate of Philosophy and Master of Laws degrees. US President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld "the greatest statesman of our century". He wrote his economics thesis, "Konjunkturspridningen", and received a doctorate from Stockholm University.

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