Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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