I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSETo achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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