"Yes, we carry everything within us, God and Heaven and Hell and Earth and Life and death and all of history. The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us. And we have to take everything that comes: the bad with the good, which does not mean we cannot deovote our life to curing the bad. but we must know what motives inspire our struggle, and we must begin with ourselves, every day anew."
~Etty Hillesum