If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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