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  • Etty Hillesum Quote - We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
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We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

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    There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

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    Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

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    That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

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    Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

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    The fact is I don’t lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.

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    Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

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    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.

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    I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

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    The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

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

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    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.

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    To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that’s quite a task.

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    Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

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    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.

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    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.

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    One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

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