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.
HERMANN HESSETheory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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