The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSEFaith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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