Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho 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 GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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 GOETHEThere is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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 GOETHEThings which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE