So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance? Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls Hermann Hesse wallbeautifulbook I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves. Hermann Hesse starsdreamsweet Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. Hermann Hesse capablelove-ismen People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Hermann Hesse courageinspirationalcharacter Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. Hermann Hesse you-make-me-happybeing-happyhappiness God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. Hermann Hesse despairpeaceorder You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. Hermann Hesse harmonyifspeople You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. Hermann Hesse easydreamway All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. Hermann Hesse iceangelbook Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. Hermann Hesse admiredoelove Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. Hermann Hesse theorypracticeknowledge Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell. Hermann Hesse flowerhearttrying When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward. Hermann Hesse investingenoughsuffering Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. Hermann Hesse wisdominspirationallife Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. Hermann Hesse togethertwopeople The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. Hermann Hesse millionstruthfaces Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future. Hermann Hesse oceantimepast The truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse taughtliteraturetruth You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. Hermann Hesse encouragementhurtlove When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose. Hermann Hesse goalmeanthinking
