Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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