Hermann Hesse

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

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 only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.