Quotes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - page 13
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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.
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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.
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
