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.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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