Dag HammarskjoldThinkers

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

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.

A Goal is what pulls us along — Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right 'road.

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

Human rights is a philosophy summed up simply as 'Freedom from fear'.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Loneliness is anguish not because one has no one to share one's burden, but rather, because one has only one's own burden to bear.

Maturity is, among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his playmates.

The Nurse's constant attention may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Prayer is not one's cravings as a human animal which one asks God to attend to.