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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Hermann Hesse

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Himself Leadership Men Path World
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

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