Logo
Quote by Etty Hillesum
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. – Etty Hillesum

Other quotes by Etty Hillesum

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. – Etty Hillesum

Category:
Worry
Author
Etty Hillesum
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Peace
category

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. – John Boyd Orr

Category:
Peace

When a persons ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them. – Bible

Category:
Peace

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. – Peace Pilgrim

Category:
Peace

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. – John Foster Dulles

Category:
Peace

Random Quotes

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. – Woody Allen

Category:
Vices

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. – Richard P. Feynman

Category:
Nature

Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will. – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Category:
Christmas

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. – James Beattie

Category:
Jealousy