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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Hermann Hesse

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
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
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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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Afraid People Philosophy
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering

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