Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The river is everywhere.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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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.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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