FastSaying

After 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 Hillesum

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
WILL SELF One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice m...
ANTHONY BURGESS You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
REX STOUT The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by ...
TRYON EDWARDS Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS Strength does not come by numbers; it comes by one mind, one heart, and one soul.
MARCELINO IBARRA Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individu...
P.D. JAMES Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI One can know Person's Mental & Physical Strength, by looking at it's appetite. Be wise while eating,...
KASHYAP MODY Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER One person sustained facial burns and 30 were displaced by the fire.
MALCOLM MIDGLEY The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what...
BEN BASS By enthusiasm one acquire unimaginable strength.
RIG VEDA How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's proble...
MAX LUCADO Strength of character is measured by our ability to resist ourselves.
STEPHEN BAKER Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, a...
HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the r...
HOLBROOK JACKSON Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS Jane Heard.
ONE No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good...
C.S. LEWIS I just thought, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' ... It was intimidating. One by one, we worked our wa...
ASHLEY CAMPBELL Brutal aggressors know no moral boundaries; confronting them by showing weakness is provocation, sho...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will...
W. H. AUDEN All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will...
W. H. AUDEN Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinio...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE Fear can be conquered only by doing the thing which makes one frightened most, provided he keeps him...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead char...
JOE CORNISH To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and ch...
GEORGE RIPLEY Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circu...
MAHATMA GANDHI Whatever you find to be very difficult for you, believe it that it’s never difficult if you do som...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of ...
PAUL ELDRIDGE I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You h...
ALAN ALDA Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You h...
ALAN ALDA Poetry is one piece of my creative thought embedded by my mother at a young age by her love of arts ...
LEAH DANCEL The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe tha...
GEORGE LOIS When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they see...
WILL SELF Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived...
VINCE LOMBARDI The first and the sustainable function that any person claiming to be leader, is required to do is t...
ANUJ SOMANY You don't become a Christian by chance, God calls you because He already determined it. You really t...
NORM TOMLINSON Never lament what gone wrong yesterday, gone is gone, but with a lesson of something good for tomorr...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If one wants to enervate the enthusiasm of talent in any company, then he should be made to report t...
ANUJ SOMANY Nothing comes instantly.
BAHER AZER Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in thi...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Today, another Day, and a Opportunity for to be Amazing
JAN JANSEN It is not by strength that one prevails. But by the grace of prayer in the spirit of perseverance.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength.
HAROLD BLOOM

More Etty Hillesum

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or t...
ETTY HILLESUM I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by si...
ETTY HILLESUM If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as wel...
ETTY HILLESUM We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our...
ETTY HILLESUM I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
ETTY HILLESUM Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, ...
ETTY HILLESUM We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
ETTY HILLESUM One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the q...
ETTY HILLESUM I would . . . be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
ETTY HILLESUM La vie est grande, bonne, passionnante
ETTY HILLESUM Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't ma...
ETTY HILLESUM Laisse la vie suivre son cours, et tout finira peut-être par s'ordonner.
ETTY HILLESUM Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more...
ETTY HILLESUM Il m'est indifférent de faire ou non de grandes choses, parce que j'ai l'intime conviction que de l...
ETTY HILLESUM À s'accorder tant d'importance à soi-même, à s'agiter et à se débattre, on passe à côté de ...
ETTY HILLESUM Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't wor...
ETTY HILLESUM Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of i...
ETTY HILLESUM Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
ETTY HILLESUM Wonderful, wonderful this death.
WILLIAM ETTY One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a...
ETTY HILSUM I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
ETTY HILSUM A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been mean...
ETTY HILSUM Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, ...
ETTY HILSUM Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more...
ETTY HILSUM Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
ETTY HILSUM