Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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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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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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