Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.

Weep If you can, Weep, But do not complain— And you must be thankful.

I didn’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.

Before Thee in humility, with Thee in faith, in Thee in peace.

For what has been—thanks! For what shall be—yes!