God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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 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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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