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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.

Hermann Hesse

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
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
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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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Encouragement Hurt Love
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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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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

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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