Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on heart
“I laugh at my heart, and do its will.”
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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 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Doubt can only be removed by action.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot Go where your heart beats faster and your laugh gets louder.
Daisy BernardezDaisy Bernardez Let your head quiet, go where your heart sways.
Butterflies RisingButterflies Rising Unbroken hearts tell no stories.
Kamilla TolnoKamilla Tolno I don’t mind cloudy days. And how could I? My heart has cloudy days too.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Maybe an image is worth 1000 words, but some words are worth 10,000 tears.
Frank ZFrank Z Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Today, let’s set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we’re not. Let’s cut the threads of guilt with grace.
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