Hermann Hesse Quotes

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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

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Positive, Being Yourself, Time

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

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Dream, Sweet, Stars

Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian: A Dual-Language Book”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Hermann Hesse

Impossible, Achieve, Again And Again

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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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Passion, Home, Creative

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

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Love, Life, Strength

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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

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Inspirational, Men, Way

Hermann Hesse (2009). “Siddhartha”, p.8, Modern Library

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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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Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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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.

Hermann Hesse

Life, Yoga, Reality

"Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

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Every experience has its element of magic.

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Magic, Elements

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

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Taken, Laughing, Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

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Love, Relationship, Communication

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We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

Hermann Hesse

War, Eye, Disrespect

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To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

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Patience, Revenge, People

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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

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Time, Ocean, Past

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

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You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Hermann Hesse

Harmony, Ifs, Demian

"Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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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.

Hermann Hesse

Hurt, Love You, Suffering

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madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

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Madness, Steppenwolf, Higher

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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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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Home, Tree, Looks

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This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

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Inspirational, Encouraging, Song

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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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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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Inspirational, Life, Positive

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A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.

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Good Night, Morning, Home

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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Hermann Hesse

Love, Doe, Admire

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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

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Art, Grace, World

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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Hermann Hesse

Life, Wisdom, Art

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.98, Om Books International

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Born: July 2, 1877
Died: August 9, 1962
Occupation: Poet
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