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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hermann Hesse

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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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
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 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
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
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
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

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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