Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEEverything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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Solitude is independence.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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