Hermann Hesse Quotes

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one's voice.

I enjoy my life very much.

I am, more than anything else, happy.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

The simple things in life make me very happy.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I'm happy in my life.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

I'm fascinated by simple joy.

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

I just really enjoy life.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it's the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.

Honestly, I just love my life.

I am really happy here in England.

For me, I'm very happy in Atlanta.

I feel there's a constant sense of happiness and gratefulness in me.

Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

I find happiness in the tiniest things.

I am happy at Napoli.