A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEI 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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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