Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
HERMANN HESSEFaith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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