Quotes of Etty Hillesum

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Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

- Etty Hillesum

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“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ There will be tough workouts when the athlete has to really dig deep, believe, and not give up when the pain seems too much. The athlete can respond in one of two ways: Yield to the pain and selfdoubt or decide that fear will not determine his or her potential. It's hard (and usually uncomfortable) work breaking through old barriers and selfdefeating thought patterns to see meaningful progress, and fear is an absolutely natural response, but you can't let it become a limiter. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours] ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ Love all, trust a few. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

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

- Eric Thomas

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater