Contentment Quote by Hermann Hesse

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention…

— Hermann Hesse

Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had…

— Anonymous

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced…

— Paulo Coelho

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting…

— James Joseph Sylvester

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

— Nicole Krauss

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

— Douglas Adams

“His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the…

— Jim Harrison

“One important thing was not to forget what he hoped to achieve in life. Another important thing was not to confuse a romantic picture…

— Lydia Davis

“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about…

— Pearl S. Buck

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby…

— Jack Kerouac