A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEI 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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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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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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