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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.

Hermann Hesse

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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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
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
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
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men

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