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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Hermann Hesse

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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
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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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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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Deep Destroy Violence
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
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength

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