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.
HERMANN HESSELoneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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