(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

The more I grew older, the less satisfactory my life gave me and more and more I realized where to look for the right sources of joy and sense. I learned to be loved does not mean anything, and that it is to love everything, that it is the ability to feel, what gives value and beauty to our existence.

Wherever on earth appeared what could be called happiness, it was embedded with emotions. Money is nothing, power is nothing. Many have both, and yet they are unhappy. Beauty is nothing, I've seen beautiful men and beautiful women who were unhappy in spite of their beauty. Health is not all; Everyone is healthy who feels so; there were patients with the full will for life who nursed it to the very end and there were healthy ones who had been tortured with the fear of suffering.

But happiness has always been where someone has been able to love and live for their feelings; if he nursed them, if he did not trample them and pushed them, they brought him pleasure. Beauty does not bring joy to the one who owns it, but to those who know how to love and admire her.

Herman Hese

Što sam bivao stariji, sve manje su me ispunjavala sitna zadovoljstva koja mi je život pružao i sve jasnije sam shvatao gde treba tražiti prave izvore radosti i smisla. Naučio sam da biti voljen ne znači ništa, a da je voleti sve, da je sposobnost da osećamo, ono što daje vrednost i lepotu našem postojanju. Gde god bi se na zemlji pojavilo ono što se može nazvati srećom, bilo je satkano od emocija. Novac nije ništa, moć nije ništa. Mnogi imaju i jedno i drugo, a ipak su nesrećni. Lepota nije ništa, vidio sam lepe muškarce i lepe žene koji su bili nesrećni uprkos svojoj lepoti. Ni zdravlje nije sve; svako je zdrav ko se tako oseća; bilo je bolesnika punih volje za životom koji su je negovali do samog kraja i bilo je zdravih koji su venuli mučeni strahom od patnje, ali sreća je uvek bila tamo gde je neko umeo da voli i živeo za svoja osećanja; ako ih je negovao, ako ih nije gazio i potiskivao, ona su mu donosila zadovoljstvo. Lepota ne pruža radost onome ko je poseduje, već onome ko ume da je voli i da joj se divi.

Herman Hese