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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
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
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World

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