Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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