The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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