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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Fall, People

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Change
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Happiness, Quality

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Adventure

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Education, Teacher
"Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1790.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Useless, Indolence

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Happiness, Vexation

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Nature, Men

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Motivational, Fitness

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Dream
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1978). “Goethe's Faust: An abridged version”

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Friendship, Marriage

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Motivational, Thinking

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Marriage

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Creativity, Open Minded
Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter, December 03, 1812.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Funny Relationship
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1983). “Who Is Goethe?”, Suhrkamp Pub Ny

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Spring, Tree

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Art, Opportunity

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Character, Streams

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Inspirational, Life
"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Magic

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Flower, Yield

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Bad Day, Passion

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