Hermann Hesse Quotes

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

A true man hates no one.

I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Love those you hate you.

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.