Dag Hammarskjold

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#character #easy #enemy #even #lack

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#atrophy #conqueror #gained #giving #goods

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

#child #granted #happiness #his #maturity

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

#deny #experience #never #own #peace

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 Hammarskjold

#forgive #forgiven #oneself #only #ourselves

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 Hammarskjold

#contrary #course #desired #destiny #history

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#drawing #everything #just #know #made

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#decency #die #i #i believe #i believe that

I never discuss discussions. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#discussions #i #never

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#grow up #hands #life #muddled #must