All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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