The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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 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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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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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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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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.
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