You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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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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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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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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