Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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 I know what love is, it is because of you.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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