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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“A life not lived for others is not a life.”
― Mother Teresa

“أنت الذي تلون حياتك بنظرك إليها, فحياتك من صنع أفكارك، فلا تضع نظارة سوداء على عينيك”
― د.عائض القرني

“الألم وألوان الخيبة والكآبة لا توجد لتحزننا ولتجردنا من القيمة والكرامة، وإنما وجدت لتزيدنا نضجاً وصفاءً”
― Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!”
― Hermann Hesse

“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.”
― Herman Hesse

“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 your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

“Your soul is the whole world.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
― Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“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, Peter Camenzind

“تعلّم ما يجب أن تتناوله بجديّة ومن ثم إضحك من الباقي”
― هرمان هسه

“ما أعجب السير في الضباب
الحياة وحدة
فليس هناك إنسان يعرف الآخر
كل إنسان وحيد”
― Hermann Hesse

“And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.”
― Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works