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.
HERMANN HESSENo permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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 longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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