Life Quotes Quote by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”

“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”

“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

“Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.”

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”