You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSEWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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