Gentleness is stronger than severity.
Water is stronger than rock.
Love is stronger than force.
When you like someone, you like them despite of their faults.
When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
How foolish is it to do everything because of a longing for warmth…
Solitude is independence.
Good that you ask.
You should always ask.
Always have doubts.
The man of power is ruined by power. –
The man of money by money.
The submissive man by subservience,
The pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong.
But sometimes it is letting go.
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
We are not going in circles; we are going upwards.
The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Your soul is the whole world.
You must find your dream.
But no dream lasts forever.
Each dream is followed by another.
And one should not cling to any particular dream.
Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self.
Why was that so very difficult?
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