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Life is good, after all…and that’s what stays with me, even now, even when I’m about to be packed off to Poland.

Etty Hillesum

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream…and life continues.
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Anand Thakur
I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Believe Chance Convince Live Myself
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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Act Healing Self Love Willing Wound
If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.
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Anand Thakur
Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else.
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Born Necessary Word
That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.
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Anand Thakur
I’m afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.
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Anand Thakur
Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up.
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Anand Thakur
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
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Anand Thakur
How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
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Anand Thakur

Life is good, after all…and that’s what stays with me, even now, even when I’m about to be packed off to Poland.

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