If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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