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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
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
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
Every experience has its element of magic.
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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
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
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

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