Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race. Dag Hammarskjold More Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold More Quotes From Dag Hammarskjold For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes. Dag Hammarskjold thankshas-beensanticipation Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. Dag Hammarskjold justicemenpeace Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. Dag Hammarskjold nursingimportantnurse We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life. Dag Hammarskjold nicefunpeople The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. Dag Hammarskjold paradisehellhumanity Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering. Dag Hammarskjold healthymotivationalinspirational Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. Dag Hammarskjold being-yourselfinspirationmoving-forward 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 goddoebelieve Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjold loverelationshiplife I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. Dag Hammarskjold goalselfmeaningful Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now. Dag Hammarskjold paindreampast 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Dag Hammarskjold rightsfearphilosophy Only one feat is possible: not to have run away. Dag Hammarskjold strength-in-adversityweaknessrunning For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes! Dag Hammarskjold has-beensrelaxation To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable. Dag Hammarskjold humilitybookfall 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 leadershiplifeorder Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it. Dag Hammarskjold militarysoldierjobs The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. Dag Hammarskjold eating-disorderanorexiaapathy 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 Hammarskjold choicessimplelooks Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity. Dag Hammarskjold inspirationfaithmorning
