Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Joe Vitale

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.

Joe Vitale

Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

Joanna Trollope

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

Jo Nesbo

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

Jimmy Carter

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

Jimmy Carter

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

Jimmy Carter

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

John C. Reilly

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

John C. Reilly

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.