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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.

Hermann Hesse

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
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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Book Stars Teaching
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
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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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious

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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