Etty Hillesum Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.

  Etty Hillesum

  Fighting, Worry, Done

• By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.

  Etty Hillesum

  Mean, Eye, Reality

• I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

  Etty Hillesum

  Strength, Fear, Thinking

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.535, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

  Etty Hillesum

  Fighting, Lakes, Worry

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