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Life Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
- Words can not express the joy of new life.
- Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
- What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
- Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid…
- That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.
- But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
- Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain…
- Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal…
- 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…
- All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.
- I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of…
- He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had…
- Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.
- Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it…
- Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing…
- All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul…
- I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
- 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…
- The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
- Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- 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…
- Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate…
- There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality…
- The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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