When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSEGod 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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Solitude is independence.
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