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!
HERMANN HESSEYou can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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 higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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