Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
HERMANN HESSEAll life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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 could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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