You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEOnly within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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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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