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 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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If 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.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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