I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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