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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.

Hermann Hesse

Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
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
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
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
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
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
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth

Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.

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