When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEA 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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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