Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSETo achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Solitude is independence.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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