No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSELove 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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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