If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into s… - Hermann Hesse
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into s…
- Hermann Hesse
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to he… - Hermann Hesse
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to he…
It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual mu… - Hermann Hesse
It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual mu…
Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast. - Hermann Hesse
Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. - Hermann Hesse
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself - Hermann Hesse
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
There is no reality except the one contained within us. - Hermann Hesse
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Every experience has its element of magic. - Hermann Hesse
Every experience has its element of magic.
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. - Hermann Hesse
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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