Hermann Hesse Quotes

I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I'm fine with the life I have.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

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

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.

I don't need much to be happy.

You don't have to have more in order to be happy.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

You can be happy where you are.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.