Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Solitude is independence.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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