A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEWisdom 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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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