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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

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
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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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon

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