Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Everything is hard before it is easy

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

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

If you would create something,you must be something.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.