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

Hermann Hesse

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
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
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
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way

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