Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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I 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.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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