The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSEThe best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSEMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEWe are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
HERMANN HESSEA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEI began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
HERMANN HESSENot in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
HERMANN HESSEThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
HERMANN HESSEWhen the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSEThe true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSESome of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSEOh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
HERMANN HESSE