When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSEWhoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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.
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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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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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