"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like." ~ Goethe ♥17SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." ~ Goethe ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." ~ Goethe ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." ~ Goethe ♥20SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"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." ~ Goethe ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by iniduals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence." ~ Goethe ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLife QuotesPositive
" Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality." ~ Goethe ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." ~ Goethe ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." ~ Goethe ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be."" ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." ~ Goethe ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him." ~ Goethe ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." ~ Goethe ♥22SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." ~ Goethe ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality." ~ Goethe ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares