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.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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There 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.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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