I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEGentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The river is everywhere.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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