Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
HERMANN HESSEWe are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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 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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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