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

Etty Hillesum
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  1. It's not time to worry yet - Harper Lee

  2. If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  3. If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? - Jodi Picoult

  4. Worry is a misuse of the imagination. - Dan Zadra

  5. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened. - Mark Twain

More Quotes By Etty Hillesum
  1. Ik zou een héél boek willen schrijven over een kiezelsteen en over een paars viooltje. Ik zou met één enkele kiezelsteen heel lang kunnen leven en een gevoel kunnen hebben in Gods machtige natuur te leven.

  2. Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

  3. Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

  4. 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.

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

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