Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Life
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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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.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
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A useless life is an early death.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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One lives but once in the world.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing
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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
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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 individuals, 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.
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