The Power of the Powerless Vaclav Havel
(Ebook)
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it. The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
Dorothy Day
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
Dorothy Day
An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westbrook Etty Hillesum
(Ebook)
Living and dying, sorrow and joy, the blisters on my feet and the jasmine behind the house, the persecution, the unspeakable horrors: it is all as one in me, and I accept it all as one mighty whole and begin to grasp it better if only for myself, without being able to explain to anyone else how it all hangs together.
Etty Hillesum
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