Dag Hammarskjöld said this quote

When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld