Hermann Hesse on chaos
Hermann Hesse90 quotes · See all“Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.”
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse 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.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Solitude is independence.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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