I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEThe 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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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And 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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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