Dag Hammarskjöld

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.Dag Hammarskjöld

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.Dag Hammarskjöld

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.Dag Hammarskjöld

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.Dag Hammarskjöld

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjöld

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.Dag Hammarskjöld

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

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 Hammarskjöld

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

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

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

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.Dag Hammarskjöld

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

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.Dag Hammarskjöld

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 Hammarskjöld

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.Dag Hammarskjöld

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.Dag Hammarskjöld

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.Dag Hammarskjöld

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld was a famous Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who was born on July 29, 1905. As a person born on this date, Dag Hammarskjöld is listed in our database as the 59th most popular celebrity for the day (July 29) and the 20th most popular for the year (1905).

People born on July 29 fall under the Zodiac sign of Leo, the Lion. Dag Hammarskjöld is the 1819th most popular Leo.

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