Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. – Dag Hammarskjold
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away. – Dag Hammarskjold
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the bodys total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? – Dag Hammarskjold
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. – Dag Hammarskjold
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,