Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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