I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEOpinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach 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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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 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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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