Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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