Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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