I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
HERMANN HESSESeeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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