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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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 love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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

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