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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.

Hermann Hesse

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
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
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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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
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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Communication Love Relationship
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men

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