He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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