As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom, attains its prime and cannot last forever. The heart must submit itself courageously to life’s call without a hint of grief, A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live. High purposed we shall traverse realm on realm, cleaving to none as to a home, the world of spirit wishes not to fetter us but raise us higher, step by step. Scarce in some safe accustomed sphere of life have we establish a house, then we grow lax; only he who is ready to journey forth can throw old habits off. Maybe death’s hour too will send us out new-born towards undreamed-lands, maybe life’s call to us will never find an end Courage my heart, take leave and fare thee well.
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HERMANN HESSE I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ... HERMANN HESSE I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c... HERMANN HESSE Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op... HERMANN HESSE Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object HERMANN HESSE To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo... HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. HERMANN HESSE To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It... HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond... HERMANN HESSE The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo... HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMANN HESSE There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, wi... HERMANN HESSE (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l... HERMANN HESSE Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh,... HERMANN HESSE Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. HERMANN HESSE Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. HERMANN HESSE When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ... HERMANN HESSE Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work i... HERMANN HESSE The Wolf trots to and fro, The world lies deep in snow, The raven from the birch tree flie... HERMANN HESSE If I know what love is, it is because of you. HERMANN HESSE Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. HERMANN HESSE Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh,... HERMANN HESSE To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institution... HERMANN HESSE Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dog... HERMANN HESSE For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. T... HERMANN HESSE If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ... HERMANN HESSE There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the col... HERMANN HESSE Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned. HERMANN HESSE He does not educate children but rejoices in their happiness HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom HERMANN HESSE Wisdom is not communicable. HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do HERMANN HESSE As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. HERMANN HESSE Es gehört meist mehr Mut dazu, einfach menschlich, statt heldenhaft heroisch zu sein. HERMANN HESSE Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. HERMANN HESSE You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salv... HERMANN HESSE Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag... HERMANN HESSE It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. HERMANN HESSE Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret HERMANN HESSE There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life... HERMANN HESSE But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always ... HERMANN HESSE Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside. HERMANN HESSE And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy a... HERMANN HESSE Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O... HERMANN HESSE If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv... HERMANN HESSE