The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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