You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
HERMANN HESSEIf I know what love is, it is because of you.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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