Quotes from Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.

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

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Ne pominji mi gomile šarene! Duh beži od nas kad se javi masa.

Starost nas ne podetinji; izraz je loš - starost nas zati?e ko pravu decu još.

I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life!

Yesterday, when I took leave she seized me by the hand, and said, "Adieu, dear Werther." Dear Werther! It was the first time she ever called me dear: the sound sunk deep into my heart. I have repeated it a hundred times; and last night, on going to bed, and talking to myself of various things, I suddenly said, "Good night, dear Werther!" and then could not but laugh at myself.

Jesus felt pure and calmly thought Only the One God; Who made himself to be a god Offends his holy will. And thus the right(ness) has to shine What Mahomet also achieved; Only by the term of the One He mastered the whole world