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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

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
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
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

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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