"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."

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Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.245, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Etty Hillesum

#Peace Quotes #Believe Quotes #Roots Quotes

“When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.”
“In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere.”
“Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.”
“There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home.”
“The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.”
“A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.”

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