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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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
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
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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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Path Philosophy
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
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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Demand Love Strength Strong
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion

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