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.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The river is everywhere.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to 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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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