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Happiness Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Happiness is love, nothing else.
- And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness…
- To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile -…
- When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk…
- When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable…
- For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the…
- Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it…
- You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you,…
- Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
- This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being…
- Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
- Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered…
- If I know what love is, it is because of you.
- It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of…
- So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last…
- I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
- I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is…
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach