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“Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Johnny Cash, in an interview for The Academy of Achievement (25 June 1993) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/cas0int-3 <br class="br">Misattributed

“The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“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

Markings (1964)

“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Servant of Peace : A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations (1962), p. 107; this has sometimes been paraphrased: It is in playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

As quoted in news reports (18 March 1956) and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) by James Beasley Simpson

“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

As quoted in Living in Grace : The Shift to Spiritual Perception (2002) by Beca Lewis, p. 158

“"To forgive oneself"—? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics… so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

In a letter to a friend, as quoted in Hammarskjöld (1972) by Brian Urquhart

“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 his right road.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“I don't know Who — or what — put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone — or Something — and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“You try to save a drowning man without prior authorization.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Statement on UN Operations in Congo before the General Assembly, 17 October 1960.

“There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“To love life and men as God loves them —
for the sake of
their infinite possibilities,
to wait like Him,
to judge like Him,
without passing judgment,
to obey the order when it is given
and never look back.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us … Hence too the necessity of preparing for it.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

William Hazlitt, in The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Misattributed

“Do we refer to the purposes of the Charter? They are expressions of universally shared ideals which cannot fail us, though we, alas, often fail them. Or do we think of the institutions of the United Nations? They are our tools. We fashioned them. We use them. It is our responsibility to remedy any flaws there may be in them…. This is a difficult lesson for both idealists and realists, though for different reasons. I suppose that, just as the first temptation of the realist is the illusion of cynicism, so the first temptation of the idealist is the illusion of Utopia.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

"An International Administrative Service", From an Address to the International Law Association at McGill University, Montreal, 30 May, 1956. Wilder Foote (Ed.), The Servant of Peace, A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, The Bodley Head, London 1962, p. 116.