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.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Passion 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.
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