Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. – Hermann Hesse
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. – Hermann Hesse
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester