You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSEFaith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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