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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

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
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
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
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait

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