Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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