People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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And 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.
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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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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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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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