Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
HERMANN HESSEMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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