Etty Hilsum Famous Quotes



One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.


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In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.
Sebastian Moore

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."
Saint Francis of Assisi

"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
Charlize Theron

"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."
R J Baughan

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G C Lichtenberg

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all.
William Ashley

"Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers."
Thomas Merton

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch

"If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you."
Ken Flaton