Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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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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 deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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 achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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