Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong... Dag Hammarskjold More Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold More Quotes From Dag Hammarskjold It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so. Dag Hammarskjold organizationlongbelieve To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky. Dag Hammarskjold dustrainfall When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism. Dag Hammarskjold bodynatureanimal It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. Dag Hammarskjold niceinspirationcharacter This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. Dag Hammarskjold unrealpossibilitymeetings Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. Dag Hammarskjold humilityselfopposites It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. Dag Hammarskjold createinsecurityplayworld Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. Dag Hammarskjold yourneverquietpeace The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Dag Hammarskjold moreleisurebusy 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 ownburdenmy-ownloneliness
