And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
HERMANN HESSEWithin you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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