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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Hermann Hesse

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
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 love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
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

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