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

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    I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

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

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

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    The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

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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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    I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

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    If one burdens the future with one’s worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

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    Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

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