Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
HERMANN HESSELove your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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