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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
It is important for me to know how to love the world, not to despise it, not to feel hatred towards it and myself, to look at it, at myself and at all beings with love, admiration and great respect.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
