Hermann Hesse Quotes

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Whatever your path is, that's your path.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

The only journey is the one within.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

I'm not a guy who looks for signs in the universe to tell him things. I believe that if you search hard enough for the answer you already know, you will find it.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.