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  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #2
    Hermann Hesse
    “When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
    Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #3
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #4
    Hermann Hesse
    “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #5
    Hermann Hesse
    “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #6
    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 something of value.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #7
    Hermann Hesse
    “I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
    Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #8
    Delia Owens
    “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #9
    Delia Owens
    “If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #10
    Delia Owens
    “Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar. Reflecting sunlight, they swirled and sailed and fluttered on the wind drafts.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #11
    Delia Owens
    “She whispered a verse by Amanda Hamilton:

    You came again,
    blinding my eyes
    like the shimmer of sun upon the sea.
    Just as I feel free
    the moon casts your face upon the sill.
    Each time I forget you
    your eyes haunt my heart and it falls still.
    And so farewell
    until the next time you come,
    until at last I do not see you.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #12
    Delia Owens
    “Let’s face it, a lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #13
    Delia Owens
    “Love must be free to wander, To land upon its chosen shore And breathe.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #14
    Delia Owens
    “Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #15
    Delia Owens
    “Sunsets are never simple.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #16
    Delia Owens
    “Sunsets are never simple. Twilight is refracted and reflected But never true. Eventide is a disguise Covering tracks, Covering lies. “We don’t care That dusk deceives. We see brilliant colors, And never learn The sun has dropped Beneath the earth By the time we see the burn. “Sunsets are in disguise, Covering truths, covering lies. “A.H.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #17
    Delia Owens
    “She held it against her heart. Where else would one need a compass more than in this place?”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #18
    Delia Owens
    “Finally, between dusk and dark, that time when the shadows were unsure,”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #21
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #22
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #25
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #29
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss



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