Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “The man of understanding finds everything laughable.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Great talent finds happiness in execution.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “To be loved for what one is, 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: “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Individuality of expression is the beginning and the end of all art.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
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