The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEAnd all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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