Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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.
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