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.
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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 true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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