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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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 can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
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.
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
