Hermann Hesse Quotes

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

There's nothing better than when a man is in tune with who he is.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

When I'm at my best is when I'm truly at peace with myself and when I allow other people in and can trust somebody to feel like I can be exactly who I am.

When you're happy and at one with yourself and have come to peace with who you are, that radiates.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

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

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.