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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.

Hermann Hesse

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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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth World
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!
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Afraid People Philosophy
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World

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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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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