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.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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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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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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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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