No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSEGentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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The river is everywhere.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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