Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
HERMANN HESSEWhen the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Solitude is independence.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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