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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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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Beautiful Book Wall
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Love 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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Love 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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