He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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You 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.
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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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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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