You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
HERMANN HESSEAnd all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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