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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

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
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth

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