Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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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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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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