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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. — Etty Hillesum

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

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

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up. — Etty Hillesum

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds. — Etty Hillesum

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. — Etty Hillesum

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. — Etty Hillesum

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

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 — Etty Hillesum

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. — Etty Hillesum

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals. — Robert Fulghum

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. — Etty Hillesum

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God. — Etty Hillesum

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips ... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. — Sid Waddell

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. — Etty Hillesum

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well. — Etty Hillesum

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

True love doesn't always last," I say. "It doesn't always have to be for a lifetime. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. — Bill Gates

I love the one who punishes me well. — Anne Rice

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. — Etty Hillesum

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. — Etty Hillesum

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. — Christina Rossetti

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night. — Etty Hillesum

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. — Jodi Picoult

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

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work. — Etty Hillesum

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. — Etty Hillesum

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. — Rumi

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light. — Dave Barry

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. — Etty Hillesum

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. — Etty Hillesum

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

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing. — Coleman Barks

And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable. — Etty Hillesum