Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Happiness #Peace #Kings

“If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Punishment #Capital Punishment #Difficult

“Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Two #Giving #Weakness

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Inspirational #Funny #Motivational

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Happiness #Teaching #Use

“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Wisdom #Truth #Found

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Change #Yoga #New Beginnings

“Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Passion #Phoenix #Ashes

“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Love #Philosophy #Life Is Good

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Inspirational #Success #Believe

“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Inspirational #Life #Adventure

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Family #Inspiring #Children

“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Inspirational #Peace #Men

“I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Hate #People #Ruins

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Beauty #Beautiful #Art

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Life #Softball #Wisdom

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Moving #Men #Acting

“Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

“Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Power #Men #Enough

“Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#People #Belief #Opinion

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#War #Stupid #Aggressive

“Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Distance #Soul #Mind

“He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Stay Strong #Mold #World

“There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Crime #Capable

“Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Sometimes

“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Powerful #Knowing #Rogues

“I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Children #Heart #Sick

“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

“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Beautiful #Treasure

“If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Positive #Littles