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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

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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
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
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
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
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
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
The 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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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering

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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