Siddhartha Quotes - Page 3

• Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Secret Love, Ordinary

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.57, Om Books International

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Would Be, Literature, Too Much

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Buddhism

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• Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

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• He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Given, Greater, Values

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

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Goal, Doctrine

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Self, Far Away

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• It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Hate, Hippie

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.110, Om Books International

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• There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhism, Doubt, Anticipation

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• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

  Marie Curie

  Positive, Inspiring, Moving On

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• . . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Rocks, Water

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• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Dog, Buddhist

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• And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Laughing, Important

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.110, Om Books International

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• The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Positive, Encouraging, Confidence

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• Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Enlightenment, Relation

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• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Buddhist, Social Justice

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• With our thoughts we make the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.36, Mango Media Inc.

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Hatred, Human Nature

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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