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
HERMANN HESSELove 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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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