Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.
Etty HillesumHow rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
Etty HillesumAfter each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
Etty HillesumI keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
Etty Hillesum