Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
HERMANN HESSEIt 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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I 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.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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 longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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