Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSESeeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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 die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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