And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
HERMANN HESSESeriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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The river is everywhere.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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