Dag Hammarskjöld Quotes
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand...
Show MoreTime always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a ...
Show MoreGod does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity but we die on the day when...
Show MoreLife only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away....
Show MoreLife only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice b...
Show MoreForgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole ag...
Show MoreOnly one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-ev...
Show MoreFriendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...
Show MoreTime goes by: reputation increases ability declines.
The present moment is significant not as the bridge between past and future but by reason of its c...
Show MoreA task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which...
Show MoreLife only demands from you the strength you possess.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? Y...
Show MoreGod does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when...
Show More'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's...
Show MoreNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? Y...
Show MoreNever measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it ...
Show MoreHow Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what i...
Show MoreThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit...
Show MoreWhat makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only...
Show MoreForgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole ag...
Show MoreFriendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon him...
Show MoreYou are not the oil, you are not the air—merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the l...
Show MoreTo preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the f...
Show MoreThe light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches ...
Show MoreHe is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. Bu...
Show MoreWhen the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a p...
Show MoreTo have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independe...
Show MoreHis moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?
A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhy...
Show MoreActs of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of de...
Show MoreLike wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is...
Show MoreIt is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even ...
Show MoreBetter than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should...
Show MoreWhen you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to g...
Show MoreLike the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses ...
Show MoreYou wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the...
Show MoreDoffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is...
Show MoreThe dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without...
Show MoreThis accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this...
Show MoreHumility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open...
Show MoreYour cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend...
Show MoreApes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.
Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.
