"Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity."

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Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

Etty Hillesum

#Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes

“The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.”
“What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy, which is the essence of magic.”
“Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“I'm ready for the 'gotcha' questions and they're already starting to come...”
“There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.”
“Don't look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity”

Source : "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2003.
“I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.”
“I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.”

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