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.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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