Hermann Hesse Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Evil, Goal

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.102, Om Books International

• Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Goal, Waiting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1484, Google Publishing

• When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 140, 1922.

• My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Goal, Quality, Able

• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

• The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.

  Hermann Hesse

  Song, Rain, Sadness

• Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Thinking, Oneness

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

• No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Goal, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.60, Courier Corporation

• Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

• Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Goal, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

• Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Heart, Self

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

• But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Teaching, Goal

• Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

  Hermann Hesse

  Goal, Healthy, Persons

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Beneath the Wheel: A Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

• I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Goal, Mustache

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 169), 1919.

• Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Goal, Waiting

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