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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Hermann Hesse

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
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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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Difference Dream Inspirational People
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual 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 bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

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