Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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Life 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
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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