Goethe

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed.... That can make this life a garden. - Goethe

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

He who seizes the right moment, is the right man. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

If I love you, what business is it of yours? - Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. - Goethe
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.- Goethe (1749-1832)

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.-Goethe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Goethe

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human. -Goethe

No one would talk much in society if he knew how often he misunderstands others. -Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. -Goethe (1749-1832)

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality. -Goethe (1749-1832)

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. -Goethe

What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Also Nietzsche

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Whatever you dream you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -(1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. -Goethe (1749-1832)

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
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we take people as we find them, we may make them worse, but if we treat them as though they are what they should be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.- Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (1749-1832)
Also One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. - Johann von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen. Moved forward, they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. --Goethe

If any man wishes to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. -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

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher(1749-1832)

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

I call architecture frozen music. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)