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.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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