More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
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.
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.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
