More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
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.
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.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
