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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse

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
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
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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Equality Expression Truth World
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
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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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
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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Inspirational Life Positive
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
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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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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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Demand Love Strength Strong
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
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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Afraid People Philosophy

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