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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Beauty, Loneliness

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Happiness

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Marriage

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Inspirational, Life

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Choices, Endless

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Inspiring, Marriage

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Marriage, Being Yourself
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1949). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good
"Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Girl
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Anniversary, Marriage
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.65, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Inspiring, Philosophy
"'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Faults, Virtue

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Knows

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Self, Majority

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”

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)

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Men, Talking

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Flower, Power
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Book, Wondrous

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Marriage

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Learning, Understanding
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Friendship, Romantic

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, How To Love, Worship

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.

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