Quote by Hermann Hesse
To be able to throw ones self away for the sake of a moment, to be

To be able to throw ones self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a womans smile – that is happiness. – Hermann Hesse

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse

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Home
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. – Hermann Hesse

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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. – Norodom Sihamoni

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. – Anthony Hopkins

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal weve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. – Earl Nightingale

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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. – Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle

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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because Ive noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. – Marcel Duchamp

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art. – Paracelsus

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