The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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 longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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