Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a Germany-born Swiss author, poet, and painter. He is best known for his novels that explore themes of spirituality and the search for authenticity, and he received a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
CLEAR ALL
Our society doesn’t promote self-acceptance and it never will. First of all, self-acceptance doesn’t sell products. Capitalism would fall if we liked ourselves the way we are now. Also, people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on.
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The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.