Quote

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

Dag Hammarskjold

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Duty
Expression
Desire
Deepest
Fulfillment
Neighbor
Towards

More quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

Image
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.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
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
Image
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
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
Each day the first day: Each day a life.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
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
Image
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
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.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
Dag Hammarskjold
Image
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
Dag Hammarskjold