Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, jus…"

"You often say to yourself in the course of your life that you ought to avoid having too much business, 'polypragmosyne' , and, more especially, that the older you get, the more you ought to avoid ente…"

"If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses."

"To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence — this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden."

"Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others."