If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverything transitory is but an image.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Remember to live.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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