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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
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.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
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.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
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.
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
