WIST

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
(Attributed)

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
(Attributed)

I am the vessel. The draught is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
(Attributed)

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
Markings (1950) [tr. L Sjoberg, W H Auden (1964)]

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
Markings (1951)

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

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
Markings (1955)
trans. L Sjoberg and W.H. Auden (1964)

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
Markings (1964)

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 Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diploamat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
Quoted in Time (27 Jun 1955)