Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
HERMANN HESSEThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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