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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Hermann Hesse

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 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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
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
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value

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