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If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Seriousness 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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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself

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