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 HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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