The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
Dag HammarskjoldThe longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag HammarskjoldBe grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
Dag HammarskjoldHumility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.
Dag Hammarskjold