Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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 you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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