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

Hermann Hesse

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
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
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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