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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

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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
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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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
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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Path Philosophy
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
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
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Inspirational Life Positive
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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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Difference Dream Inspirational People
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
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
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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Flower Heart Try
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise

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