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

Hermann Hesse

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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
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
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
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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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
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
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
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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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Beautiful Book Wall

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

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