Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
HERMANN HESSESome of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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