How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.
Hermann HesseLove can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
Hermann HesseTo hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
Hermann Hesse