If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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Solitude is independence.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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