Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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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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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The river is everywhere.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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