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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

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 true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World

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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