He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSEAge 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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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