Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of 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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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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