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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

Hermann Hesse

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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
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
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
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
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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Art Life Wisdom
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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

I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

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