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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI love those who yearn for the impossible.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
-
-
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
And all must follow in my wake.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE