1. One 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.
2. If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
3. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
4. If I love you, what business is it of yours?
5. No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
6. 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.
7. When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
8. If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
9. Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
10. A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him.
11.Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
12. In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
