Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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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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