Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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