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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Wings, Two

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Motivational, Children

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Honesty, Deception

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Believe, Cake
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.32, Penguin UK

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Baby, Children, Wings

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Summer, Nature, Children

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Trying, Love One Another

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education, Children, Insanity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.78

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Baby, Children
Hermann and Dorothea pt. 3 (1797)

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Children, Being Alone

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Family, Inspiring, Children

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Children, Simple

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dog, Children, Practice
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Should Have, Childhood
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Giving, And Love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Miracle, Pet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1859). “Faust: A Dramatic Poem”, p.51

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Heart, Sick
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.7, Princeton University Press

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Adults, Literature

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Men, Yellow

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Steps, Amazed
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.27, e-artnow

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Age, Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Time, Children

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mother, Wisdom, Children
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faith, Children, Miracle
BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.58, BookCaps Study Guides

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Men, Age

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