Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
HERMANN HESSEBecause 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Your soul is the whole world.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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