Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSEThe true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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 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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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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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