Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEWhen the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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