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.
HERMANN HESSEArt is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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