Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

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 Quote

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

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 Quote

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

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 Quote

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

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.
- Dag Hammarskjold Quote

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 Quote

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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