Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
HERMANN HESSELife 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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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