Hermann Hesse Quotes

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

I have not yet learned to keep still.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.

You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

I've learned patience.

But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Silence is a source of great strength.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.