Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSELoneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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