Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.371Life
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHabit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.372Reading
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheConfronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love361Love
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants, Riverrun Pr361Death
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ✨ Iphigenia in Tauris. Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.372Love
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes th… ▶361HumanityLove
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.372Life
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne must keep repeating the Truth.362Truth
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you i… ▶373Thought
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.362HumorThought
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.362Sadness
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNine 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 eno… ▶351HopeLifeLove
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGod help us -- for art is long, and life so short.351Life
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). Conve… ▶374Life
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDeeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.341HumanityThought
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeauty is everywhere a welcome guest. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faus… ▶352Sadness
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). Maxims and Reflections, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe352PoliticsReflection
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDevote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.352Time
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ✨ Hermann and Dorothea pt. 3 (1797)341Love
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ✨ Maxims and Reflections. Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 39, 1998.<… ▶363ReadingReflection
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.363Thought
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.341Humanity
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThis is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.341LoveTruth
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). THE SORROWS OF YOUNG… ▶363LoveReadingSadness
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheClassicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.374Time
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe soul of the Christian religion is reverence.352Truth
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). Conversations of Goethe with Johan… ▶352Reading
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEveryone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.341Hope
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe present moment is a powerful goddess.374PoliticsTime
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.331Death
