#dag hammarskjold

[thecalminside]

The longest journey is the journey inward.

-Dag Hammarskjold

[chuckbbirdsjunk]

[yourdailyqueer]

Dag Hammarskjöld (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay / Asexual

DOB: 29 July 1905

RIP: 18 September 1961

Ethnicity: White - Swedish

Occupation: Economist, diplomat, Secretary General of the United Nations

Note: The first and only posthumous recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

[gracie-bird]

Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, uses his hands as he describes the United Nations headquarters buildings to Prince Rainier and his wife, Princess Grace, at meeting in Hammarskjold’s office at the U.N. headquarters in New York Dec. 16, 1958. 

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Flight trails, captured by Edu Aguilera

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"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

—From "Markings," a book of meditations by Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the second United Nations Secretary-General [Traversing]

[gennsoup]

Choked by its clown's mask And quite dry, my mind Is crumbling.

Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

[dag-hammarskjold]

I need to make a thread of every time Hammarskjöld has inadvertently hinted to his own death. Past a point it stopped being foreshadowing and started to become writings on the wall

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

[fourdramas]

began researching dag hammerskjöld’s impeccable reputation because surely no scandinavian un general secretary is that impeccable

i did not expect to discover a longstanding disagreement between historians on whether he had ties to the swedish-american mining industry or that was propaganda fabricated by belgian industrialists. i guess one way or another, it does not change that he was most likely assassinated in order to protect belgian commercial interests. but it vastly changes his motives.

i have not read wide enough into this to draw any conclusions (of course assuming no ill intent unless i am fully convinced that it is proven), but it is far more interesting than i first assumed!

[withnailrules]

A great new year's resolution:

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

Dag Hammarskjold

[dk-thrive]

We die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjöld, "Markings" (Ballantine Books; January 1, 1982) (via Alive on All Channels)

[thecalminside]

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

-Dag Hammarskjold

[viktor-regnsky]

The sky’s still blue

[infinitedonut]

"The longest journey is the journey inward." - Dag Hammarskjold

[linusjf]

Dag Hammarskjold: Easy to be nice

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character. ” —Dag Hammarskjold.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Stay in your own lane.

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

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"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

~ Dag Hammarskjold