What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Danger Imagination Taste
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
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Hands Himself Live
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
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Forever Moments Worth
By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Learning Mistake Seek
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Character Himself Transformation
Remember to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Live One Liner Remember
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Myself See
We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Deep Future Lost Past Philosophy Present
I wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Morning Myself Tears Wait
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Eat Life Taste Yourself
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Goodness Photograph Poem Possible Reading Song
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Purpose Slave World Yourself
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Ignorance Understand World
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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Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Growth People
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Exception Oneself Ordinary
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Stupidity Worse
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Exception Greatness Himself Love Oneself
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Children Heart Myself Sick
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Deep Philosophy Soul
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Character Laugh Man
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Ability Character People
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

Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Laughter Myself

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