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

Hermann Hesse

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
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
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value

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