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.
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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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 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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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