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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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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
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
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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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
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
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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Art Life Wisdom
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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