God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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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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