Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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
-
-
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSE -
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
HERMANN HESSE -
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
HERMANN HESSE -
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
HERMANN HESSE -
The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSE -
Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSE -
Every experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSE -
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.
HERMANN HESSE -
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.
HERMANN HESSE -
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
HERMANN HESSE -
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.
HERMANN HESSE -
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
HERMANN HESSE -
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
HERMANN HESSE -
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
HERMANN HESSE -
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSE