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There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.


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To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.



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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?



Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.



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Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.



The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.



Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.



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One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.



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The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.



As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.



Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.





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Go ahead, look at the message. You know you want to.”“No, it doesn’t matter.”“Then why do you keep staring at it like it’s the last piece of food on earth?



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