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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time, Heart, Honor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morning, Heart, Simple
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.13, 谷月社

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Laughing, My Heart

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Holy, Should

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Spring, Heart

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Men, Should Have
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passion, Heart, Poetry
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Names, People

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Politeness
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passion, Heart, Fate
Elective Affinities bk. 2, ch. 3 (1808)

We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Heart, Yellow
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.169, Courier Corporation

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Gone, My Heart

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Perfect, Ease

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Difficulty, Wounded Heart

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Keys, Society

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Long, Terrible
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.162, Princeton University Press

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Paradise, Delight
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.25, 谷月社

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Heart, Procrastination

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Men, Understanding

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