The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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