More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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.
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.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.