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 HESSELove your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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