All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
HERMANN HESSEI 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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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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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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