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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
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.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
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.
