Hermann Hesse Quotes

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Hermann Hesse

• Love
• Strong
• For Her
• Certainty

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Hope
  • Know
  • Ought

• I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Unhappy

• I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Bother

• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Difference
  • Match
  • Fresh

• What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Real
  • Action
  • Discipline

• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• In person, George Clooney lives up to all your expectations.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Up

• The world of Debussy is a seductive oasis, and it is hard to leave it after spending many days immersed in its atmosphere. Playing Debussy-or any other composer with a strong and idiosyncratic personality-affects not only one's cast of mind but the physical disposition as well, the way the muscles work and the fingers come into contact with the ivories.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • World
  • Work
  • Mind

• How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.'

  

  Esai Morales
  • Love
  • Character
  • Movie

• There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Love
  • Strong
  • For Her