Doubt can only be removed by action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDoubt can only be removed by action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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 GOETHEI wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFor a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery 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.
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 GOETHEWhat is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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 GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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