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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.

Hermann Hesse

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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.
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Home Reach
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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 true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
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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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective

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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