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

Hermann Hesse

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
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
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
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
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
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
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

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