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.
HERMANN HESSEGentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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