When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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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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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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