Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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