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Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Swedish - Diplomat | July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961

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

Life Death Step You Body Goal

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Life Strength You Run Possible Away

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

Peace Progress Victory End Defeat

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship Loneliness Words Solitude

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Fear Freedom Philosophy Said Human

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Dag Hammarskjold

Grow May Only Simpler Warmer

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

Daily God Day Believe Die Wonder

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

Loneliness Burden My Own Bear Own

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Yourself Labor More Salvation Noble

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

People Thinking Weird Drawing You

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Experience Peace Quiet Never Own

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

Time Moment Day Soul Child Waiting

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