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.
HERMANN HESSEEverything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Solitude is independence.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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