10 Inspirational Quotes by Hermann Hesse to Live By

1. "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on."

2. "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."

3. "Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go."

4. "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

5. "The truth is lived, not taught."

6. "Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."

7. "The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed."

8. "The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world."

9. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."

10. "One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time."