Quotes from Goethe

Zur Resignation gehört Charakter.

Wenn wir die Menschen nur nehmen wie sie sind, so machen wir sie schlechter. Wenn wir sie behandeln, als wären sie, was sie sein sollten, so bringen wir sie dahin, wohin sie zu bringen sind.

The society of women is the foundation of good manners.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thought unexpressed- that can make this life a garden.