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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI 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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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 GOETHEBehaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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 GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI love those who yearn for the impossible.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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