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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.

Hermann Hesse

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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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Apperance Home Tree
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
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
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
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
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World

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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