When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Solitude is independence.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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