Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
Dag HammarskjoldNever measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag HammarskjoldTo preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
Dag HammarskjoldFor the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.
Dag Hammarskjold