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.
HERMANN HESSEWe are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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