Quotes of Etty Hillesum

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We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

- Etty Hillesum

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“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. ”

- Eric Thomas

“ Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts. ”

- Richard Crawshaw

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone