This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.
Herman Hesse
A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
Herman Hesse
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
Herman Hesse
Our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
Herman Hesse
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Herman Hesse
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
Herman Hesse
Now true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.
Herman Hesse
Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
Herman Hesse
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
Herman Hesse
