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.
HERMANN HESSEGod does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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