Etty Hillesum Quotes

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.

Etty Hillesum

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Soccer

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Care
  • Parent

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Live
  • Think
  • Greatest

• Negative politics have always been around.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Negative

• I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Long
  • Night

• I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Always
  • Awkward
  • Recognizes

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• I could just go a few steps from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907 and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Great
  • House
  • City

• I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

  

  Princess Margaret

• My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Singing

• If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'

  

  Brian Binnie
  • People
  • School
  • Stupid

• It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Work
  • Why
  • Smile

• I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Free
  • Health
  • Single

• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Mother
  • Free
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Free
  • Riches
  • Don't Want