Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
HERMANN HESSESeriousness 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Passion 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.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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