“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“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Hermann Hesse“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
— Hermann Hesse“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
— Hermann Hesse“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
— Hermann Hesse“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”
— Hermann HesseSome of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
— Hermann Hesse