Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
HERMANN HESSEA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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