Dag Hammarskjold Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.”

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”