Hermann Hesse Quotes

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

Love is the strongest force in the world.

Love is the force that makes us fully human.

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

With love, even the rocks will open.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

The lesson of the way of love is that evil can only be overcome by good. We don't need to reach out and tear down the things that are evil because nothing which is contrary to the law of love can endure.

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

My love is like a tire iron.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.