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 GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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If 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.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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