When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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