Hermann Hesse Quotes

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Hermann Hesse

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• 'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Free
  • Thought
  • Slaves

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Think
  • Game
  • Same

• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Insurance
  • Accomplishment

• Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Things
  • Everyday

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Parent

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nature

• We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Faith
  • Exists
  • Who

• Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Father
  • Eye

• Girls from poor families of the 'untouchable,' or lower, caste are 'married' to Yellamma as young as four. No longer allowed to marry a mortal, they are expected to bestow their entire lives to the service of the goddess.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Service
  • Goddess

• To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • History
  • Faith
  • Study