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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Hermann Hesse

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
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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
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
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
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
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
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
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise

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