Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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 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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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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