God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEYouth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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