Dag Hammarskjold

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.

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

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

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.

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

If only I may grow; firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

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