A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
HERMANN HESSEHis 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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