Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
HERMANN HESSEGentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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