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

Hermann Hesse

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
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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Flower Heart Try
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves 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
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
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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Difference Dream Inspirational People
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent

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