black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Hermann Hesse

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSE

Beautiful Book Wall
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSE

Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSE

Beginning Live Magic Protection
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
HERMANN HESSE

Happiness Object Talent
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.
HERMANN HESSE

Demand Love Strength Strong
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSE

Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSE

Character Courage Inspirational
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSE

Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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.
HERMANN HESSE

Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
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 HESSE

Life People Reality World Yoga
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
HERMANN HESSE

Freedom Goal Inspirational
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.
HERMANN HESSE

Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
HERMANN HESSE

Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSE

Happiness Love Men
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSE

Art Grace World
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSE

Afraid Harmony People Yourself

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Hermann Hesse Quotes