To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSEThe best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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