Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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