There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
HERMANN HESSETo achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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