When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEWhen the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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.
HERMANN HESSEMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
HERMANN HESSEI live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge 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.
HERMANN HESSEA house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
HERMANN HESSETheory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
HERMANN HESSEAll higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
HERMANN HESSEGod does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEPassion 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 HESSESome of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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