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.
HERMANN HESSEGod does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Solitude is independence.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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