When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSEWithin you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The river is everywhere.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Solitude is independence.
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