Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
HERMANN HESSEChaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Solitude is independence.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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