When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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