Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

Joe Vitale

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.

Joe Vitale

Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

Joanna Trollope

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

Jo Nesbo

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Jo Nesbo

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

Jimmy Carter

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

Jimmy Carter

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

Jimmy Carter

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

John C. Reilly

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

John C. Reilly

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

John C. Maxwell

You've got to love your people more than your position.

John C. Maxwell

People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

John C. Maxwell

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Euripides

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

The love triangle was the trickiest thing in the movie,

Alfred Rosenberg

the love of nature in all its forms.