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  • Etty Hillesum Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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.
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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 seeks to fulfill its promise.

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    That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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    Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - If one burdens the future with one’s worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living. Download This Image

    If one burdens the future with one’s worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

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    Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

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    Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

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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 seeks to fulfill its promise.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes. Download This Image

    I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else. Download This Image

    Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

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    I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

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    Life is good, after all…and that’s what stays with me, even now, even when I’m about to be packed off to Poland.

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    I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

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    Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won’t work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

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    The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

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    Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

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