More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.