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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
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
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong

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