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

Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
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
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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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
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
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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

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