"To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to……" — Etty Hillesum
"To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task"
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41 Quotes by Etty Hillesum
Etty Hillesum has 41 quotes on this site.
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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my…
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being…
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that…
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which…
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with…
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give…
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your…
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study…
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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
— Saint Basil
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what…
— Henri Bergson
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature…
— Larry Bird
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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
— Daniel Boone
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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way…
— Orson Scott Card
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
— Dale Carnegie
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain,…
— Kurt Cobain
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