You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSELove 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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 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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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