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Happiness Quotes by Hermann Hesse

37 Happiness quotes by Hermann Hesse

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Hermann Hesse suggests that true happiness can arise even in suffering if it is spiritual and rooted inside. He talks about finding contentment within oneself rather than chasing external joy. He also notes that embracing both light and darkness is part of a whole happiness.

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“content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied!”

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Happiness is love, nothing else.

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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“even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.”

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What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

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Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

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I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny.…

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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

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Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

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“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow…

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And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every…

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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved…

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“Everything was a lie, everything stank, everything stank of lies, everything feigned meaning and happiness and beauty, and yet everything was decaying…

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“Over his soul in fleeting waves of happiness, the dreamlike presentiment of a bright earth ruled by the sun began to flicker,…

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“That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds…

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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a…

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It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,…

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When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts…

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“Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with…

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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every…

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“I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need…

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“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can…

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“He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to…

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“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist…

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“I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering…

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“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which…

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“So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and…

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“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always…

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“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and…

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“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and…

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“The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it, for most people experience their dreams…

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“In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate...But in the midst of the freedom…

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“[Y]ou have no happiness in your heart, no power, no will that does not live in us as a presentiment, a reflection,…

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Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which…

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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything…

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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

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Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?