Dag Hammarskjold

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

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.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

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

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

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

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

Smiling, sincere, incorruptible -_x000D_ _x000D_ His body disciplined and limber._x000D_ _x000D_ A man who had become what he could,_x000D_ _x000D_ And was what he was-_x000D_ _x000D_ Ready at any moment to gather everything_x000D_ _x000D_ Into one simple sacrifice.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.