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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Hermann Hesse

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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Inspirational Life Positive
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
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
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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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
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
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
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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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
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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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
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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Afraid People Philosophy
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth

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