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.
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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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 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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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