black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Goethe

Related Topics

Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Intelligence Laughter Man
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Children Easy Hard Time Parents
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Word
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!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Desire Disappointment Enjoyment Happiness Heart Hope Ignorance World
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Creation Past Philosophy
I 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 GOETHE

Heart Myself Philosophy Presence Soul
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Knowledge Myself
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Deep Life Night
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Goodness Oneself Poem Possible Reading Word
What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Alone Heart Talk Win
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Achievement Greatness Himself Man
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Evil Greatness Himself Sick
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Literature One Liner Transformation
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Institution Mad Mental Ourselves
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Character Laugh Man

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes