You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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