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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.

Hermann Hesse

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
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
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
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
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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
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
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 longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.

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