You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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