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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.

Hermann Hesse

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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality 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
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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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

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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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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