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.
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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