Quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
— Dag Hammarskjold
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
— Dag Hammarskjold
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
— Dag Hammarskjold
How Forgiveness Helps Us 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 again made clean.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Each day the first day: Each day a life.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
— Dag Hammarskjold
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them
— Dag Hammarskjold
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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.
— Dag Hammarskjold
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
— Dag Hammarskjold