Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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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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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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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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The river is everywhere.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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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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