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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Hermann Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
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

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