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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.
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.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.
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.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
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.
