A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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