Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind.  He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds.

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, 'Yes'!

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

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

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

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.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

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