God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEPassion 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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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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