Hermann Hesse

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#meaning-of-life #life

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#maturity #melancholy #suffering #life

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#mysticism

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hesse #restlessness #siddhartha #soul #dreams

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#love

If I know what love is, its because of you. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#love

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #speech #thought #life

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#inspirational

The river is everywhere. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #omnipresence #river #life

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#integrity #harmony