Hermann Hesse Quotes

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

I am happy with the roles I play.

At the end of the day, all there is is making yourself happy.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

I honestly just want to make myself happy most, and if other people like it, then that's great. If they don't, then I'm still happy.

I'm just content with myself, happy with myself.

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.