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.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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