All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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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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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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