Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

Attitude • Despair • Hope

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Education • Family • Growth

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Beauty • Perception • Solitude

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Kindness • Society • Unity

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

Happiness • Purpose • Talent

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Evil • Fate • Fear

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Art • Personality • Poetry

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Life • Philosophy • Priorities

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Awareness • Deception • Honesty

In art the best is good enough.

Aesthetics • Art • Creativity

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Happiness • Joy • Motivational

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Freedom • Life • Wisdom

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

Actions • Knowledge • Motivational

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Adversity • Contentment • Perseverance

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Contentment • Happiness • Home

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Acceptance • Religion

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Finance • Time

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

Awareness • Confidence • Empowerment

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Ecology • Nature • Relationships

A useless life is an early death.

Improvement • Inspiration • Mortality