More From Hermann Hesse
- "One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
- "To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."
- "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 – that is happiness."
More In Happiness
- "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."― George Santayana
- "See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."― James Freeman Clarke
- "The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."― Ernest Dimnet