Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe comprehension imagine complicated Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe receiving giving two Architecture is crystallized music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe architecture Faith is hidden household capital. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe household If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe coats missing firsts Let us live, while we are alive! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive Life's objective is life itself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe objectives Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe perfect happiness way Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe estates heirs God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe simplicity simple men I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bad-day passion life All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ideas An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe friendly happiness giving No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nature men life We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe life moving thinking Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe heart heaven religion When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe be-you men In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe speak-less mind art Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe favour quality men The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe treasure half loss
