The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSE
Beauty 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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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