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Etty Hillesum Quotes: I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.
         

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.


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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.



As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.



Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.



We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.



Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.



Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.



Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.



That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.



I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.



There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.





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Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.



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I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.



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The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.



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