No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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