A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEA tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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 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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