Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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