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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.

Hermann Hesse

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love 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
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
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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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Evil Real Time
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality

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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