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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Game Ideas Start Win
The 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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Oneself Travel
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Believe Inspirational Magic Yourself
What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Alone Heart Talk Win
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Ignorance Understand World
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 GOETHE

Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Purpose Slave World Yourself
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
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
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
Remember to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Live One Liner Remember
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Myself See
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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

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