The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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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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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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