Nature knows no pause in progress and development,
and attaches her curse on all inaction.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that
he possesses one
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The heights charm us, but the steps do not;
with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
--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
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must
regard himself as greater than he is.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German poet
dramatist, novelist, and scientist
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love.
From it springs purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
We should quietly hear both sides.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any,
but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds;
our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is
understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~
That can make life a garden.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing
in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem,
and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole.
It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter
in dem Strom der Welt [Talent develops in quiet places,
character in the full current of human life.]
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however,
if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming,
I help you become that.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet and Philosopher
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to
moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lose this day loitering, 'Twill be the same story Tomorrow --
and the next more dilatory. Then indecision brings its own delays,
and days are lost lamenting overdays! Are you ernest?
Seize this very minute! What you can do, or dream you can -
begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage, and the mind grows heated. Begin it,
and the work will be completed.
--Goethe
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