June 4, 2010

Goethe's words of wisdom



“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”

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

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“The deed is everything, the glory is naught.”

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

“The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.”

“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”

“Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.”

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

“To create something you must be something.”

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”

“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.”

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

“Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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