BIRTHDAYS + JULY 2, 2023
HERMAN HESSE 1877-1961 “Siddhartha” “Demian”
EVERY EXPERIENCE HAS ITS ELEMENT OF MAGIC.
WHOEVER WANTS MUSIC INSTEAD OF NOISE, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
WITHIN YOU there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
THE TRUTH HAS A MILLION FACES, BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH.
YOU MUST FIND YOUR DREAM, THEN THE WAY BECOMES EASY.
HAPPINESS IS LOVE, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
THEORY is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
GOD does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
I HAVE NO RIGHT to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
LEARN WHAT IS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND LAUGH AT THE REST.
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.
THERE IS NO REALITY EXCEPT THE ONE CONTAINED WITHIN US. That is why so many people live such anneal life. they take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
FAITH AND DOUBT GO HAND IN HAND, THEY ARE COMPLEMENTARIES. ONE WHO never doubts will never truly believe.
TO ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE, WE MUST ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE again and again.
LOVE YOUR SUFFERING. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
THE TRUE PROFESSION OF MAN IS TO FIND HIS WAY TO HIMSELF.
WHEN you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
THOSE WHO cannot or take responsibility for themselves need and clamor for a leader.
THE DEIOTY IS WITHIN YOU, NOT IN IDEAS AND BOOKS. TRUTH IS LIVED, NOT TAUGHT.
YOU ARE ONLY AFRAID if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
ALL HIGHER HUMOR BEGINS WITH CEASING TO TAKE ONESELF SERIOUSLY.
LONELINESs is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
THE BEST WEAPONS AGAINST THE INFAMIES OF LIFE are courage, willfulness and patience. Courage strengthens, willfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
YOUTH ENDS when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
SOLITUDE IS INDEPENDENCE.
WHEN THE SUFFERING becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
ALL THE BOOKS of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
EVERYONE CAN REACH HIS GOAL, IF HE CAN THINK, WAIT AND FAST.
I LIVE IN MY DREAMS–that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
MADNESS, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
KNOWLEDGE can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
THE TRUTH IS LIVED, NOT TAUGHT.
ONLY within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
WE KILL IN EVERY STEP, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.
In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else but killing.
In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else but killing.
YOU CAN RIDE, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
NO WISDOM is better than this when known:
THAT EVERY HARD THING IS DONE ALONE.
LIFE IS WAITING EVERYWHERE, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.
HAPPINESS IS A HOW; not a what. A talent, not an object.
NO PERMANENCE is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
ANY ATTEMPT TO REPLACE A PERSONAL CONSCIENCE by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
A TREE has something to say to us: be still! Look at me! . . . Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
YOU SOUL IS THE WHOLE WORLD.
THE MAN OF POWER is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
ART IS THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE WORLD IN A STATE OF GRACE.
WE FIND that our innermost self is the spirit, that is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
OMAR SULEIMAN 1936-2012 Former Egypian vice-president.
THE SIGN OF A BEAUTIFUL PERSON is that they always see beauty in others.
WHAT YOU SEE IN OTHER PEOPLE is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.
NEVER FORGET THE FAVORS done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.
LOVE THE PEOPLE you think you’d want to be with in the hereafter.
KIND WORDS cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.
THURGOOD MARSHALL Supreme Court Justice 1908-1993
EQUAL MEANS getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
TO PROTEST against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
A MAN can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
NONE OF US got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody — a parent, a teacher, and Ivy League crony or a few nuns — bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL