When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSETo achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Solitude is independence.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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