Whoever 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.
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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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