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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Hermann Hesse

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
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
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
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
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
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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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
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

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