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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Children Easy Hard Time Parents
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Limitation Oneself
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Character Himself Transformation
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Book Mindset Reading Strong Thinking
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Achievement Man
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Evil Greatness Himself Sick
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Myself Philosophy Reality
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Change Life Live Preparation
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Language Limitation World
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Beautiful God Human Life Man Music Photograph Poetry Reading Soul
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Achievement Important
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destroy Live Past
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Goodness Oneself Poem Possible Reading Word