Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

#ask #attend #because #become #cravings

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

#anguish #delivered #loneliness #needs #solitude

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#bear #burden #i #loneliness #makes

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

#find #fulfillment #makes #road #seek

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#faithfully #hear #listen #more #outside

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

#constant #good #important #just #major

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 the right road. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#down #eye #far #find #fixed

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#enough #finding #great #into #live

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#grow #i #may #only #quieter

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#always #becoming #child #christmas #day