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Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Freedom, Philosophy, Rights

Dag Hammarskjöld

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Peace, Quiet, Never

Dag Hammarskjöld

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.

Daily, Day, Believe

Dag Hammarskjöld

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.

Life, Goal, Step

Dag Hammarskjöld

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

Law, Balance, Soul

Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Mountain, Measure, You

Dag Hammarskjöld

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.

Time, Happy, Day

Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Destiny, Choose, Frame

Dag Hammarskjöld

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.