The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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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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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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