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.
HERMANN HESSEI 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.
HERMANN HESSEThe river is everywhere.
HERMANN HESSEHis 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.
HERMANN HESSEThe true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
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.
HERMANN HESSETo achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSELife 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
HERMANN HESSEThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSEAnd 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.
HERMANN HESSENo permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSETheory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
HERMANN HESSEPassion 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.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSEChaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSEA 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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