Etty Hillesum Quotes
Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
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Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
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I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
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True love is a love of giving, not a love of receiving.
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What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do, which is to fight.
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A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
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I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.
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Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.
