"We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds."

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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.550, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Etty Hillesum

#Should Quotes #Willing Quotes #Wounds Quotes

“Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.”

Source : Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage
“I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.”
“I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’”
“Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.”
“Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.”

Source : Jane Lindskold (2002). “Through Wolf's Eyes”, p.211, Macmillan
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
“Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.”

Source : "Multiple Sclerosis". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.
“Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.”

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