Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The river is everywhere.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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