You 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.
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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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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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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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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