When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSEAll life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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