Hermann Hesse Quotes about Giving

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The art of love-giving and taking become one.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

Hermann Hesse

Love, Art, Giving

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.

Hermann Hesse

Roots, Giving, Tree

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

Hermann Hesse

Life, Giving, Way

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

Hermann Hesse

Eye, Men, Giving

Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam