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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.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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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Encouragement Hurt Love
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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 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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True

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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