He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSEA tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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