Natasja Hellenthal > Natasja's Quotes

“To love someone is easy. To keep it is a risk”
― Natasja Hellenthal, The Queen's Curse

“I become”
― Natasja Hellenthal, The Queen's Curse

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”
― Etty Hillesum

“In wintertime everything seems to stand still, all frozen and hidden beneath the snow and ice; unseen by the eye. Everything and everyone hidden away, asleep in burrows and caves, between roots and in holes dreaming about summers past and summers yet to come. All waiting patiently for the sun to bring back its warmth.    Only a few know that that’s not completely true. Some things just don’t rest, don’t linger or stand still. They’re always moving; even”
― Natasja Hellenthal, Call Off The Search

“I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.”
― Etty Hillesum, Lettres de westerbork

“Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.”
― Tanith Lee, Night's Sorceries

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall