Hermann Hesse Quotes

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

I try not to be in my head too much, I just try to do what feels right.

Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

Just do what feels right.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won't lead me wrong.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.

Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you're doing.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

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.

You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

You have to listen to your own heart.

I've been following my intuition and what moves me.

At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that's what I did.