My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEIn every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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