"We should be willing to act as a…" — Etty Hillesum

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

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41 Quotes by Etty Hillesum

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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…
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study…
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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