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Etty Hillesum Quotes

Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together Picture Quote #1

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies Picture Quote #1

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others Picture Quote #1

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island Picture Quote #1

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream... and life continues Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up Picture Quote #1

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together (Etty Hillesum Quotes) We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies (Etty Hillesum Quotes) Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others (Etty Hillesum Quotes) Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island (Etty Hillesum Quotes) I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream... and life continues (Etty Hillesum Quotes) 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 (Etty Hillesum Quotes) 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 (Etty Hillesum Quotes) I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away (Etty Hillesum Quotes) 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 (Etty Hillesum Quotes) 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 (Etty Hillesum Quotes) Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up (Etty Hillesum Quotes) After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble (Etty Hillesum Quotes)

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