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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Hermann Hesse

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
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 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
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
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
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
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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

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