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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
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
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship 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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

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