Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSENot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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