Etty Hillesum Quotes
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
Lapo Elkann
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
Daniel Cormier
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
Becky G
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
Gary Zukav
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
Warren Spector
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
J. William Fulbright
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
Wayne Rooney
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The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
Zig Ziglar
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When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
Carine Roitfeld
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.
Oprah Winfrey
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
Seth Godin
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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Nikolai Gogol
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Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.
Stephen Spender
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
