More From Hermann Hesse
- "The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."
- "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
- "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
- "From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable."― Dennis Prager
- "If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."― Bertrand Russell
- "Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result."― Robert Green Ingersoll