Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
HERMANN HESSEAge 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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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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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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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