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  • Etty Hillesum Quote - How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
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How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

Etty Hillesum

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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned. Download This Image

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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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    And now that I don’t want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.

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    Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

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    I’m afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

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

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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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