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 GOETHEThe heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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