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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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 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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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