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"Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way."
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"Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all."
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Personal Development
"All answers that you seek can only be found within."
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Personal Development
"You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity within, and you shall discover the way through which you'll reach your goal."
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Personal Development
"If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself."
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Personal Development
"I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes you should ask yourself if the world would be a better place without your existence, then you would know if you are on the right path or not."
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Personal Development
"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues."
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Personal Development
"We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within."
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Personal Development
"Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself."
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Personal Development
"We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self]."
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"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."
Passion
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
Nature
"The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings-not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling."
Legacy
"My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth."
Creativity
"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
Passion
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
Learning
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Love
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
Nature
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
Love
"Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire."
Freedom
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