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.
HERMANN HESSENo permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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