Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on change
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe By seeking and blundering we learn.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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