The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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 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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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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