Hermann Hesse Quotes

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose. I know that all children - and, in particular, mine - are here for a reason.

I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

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

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

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.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

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

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.