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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

Hermann Hesse

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
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
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious

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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