A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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