Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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