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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Hermann Hesse

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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
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 truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom

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