The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism. Dag Hammarskjold More Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold More Quotes From Dag Hammarskjold Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment Dag Hammarskjold dreamtimepast You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds Dag Hammarskjold weedtruthanimal When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate. Dag Hammarskjold determinationmorninggiving 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 forgivenessdreamchildren It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. Dag Hammarskjold behaviorimportantcharacter It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. Dag Hammarskjold insecuritysafetyplay You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES. Dag Hammarskjold repeatsdareall-things 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 the right road. Dag Hammarskjold positivehappinessinspirational The longest journey Dag Hammarskjold destinyjourneypast If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. Dag Hammarskjold selfkindnessbirthday Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth. Dag Hammarskjold gratefulnamesfeet You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means. Dag Hammarskjold learninglifeknowledge It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. Dag Hammarskjold nobleapprovalgiving What you must dare: is to be yourself. Dag Hammarskjold daringbeing-yourselfindividuality Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace. Dag Hammarskjold renaissancespiritualworld 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 drawingmilitarythinking I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. Dag Hammarskjold diesshouldbelieve Each day the first day: Dag Hammarskjold each-dayfirsts Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold loverelationshiplife Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees. Dag Hammarskjold secrettreemen
