I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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His 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.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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