"Despite everything, life is full of beauty and…" — Etty Hillesum

"Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning."

— Etty Hillesum

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41 Quotes by Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my…
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good…
I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being…
It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that…
I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which…
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or…
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with…
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give…
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your…
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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