Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Picture
  • Depression
  • Grief

• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Where
  • Chosen
  • Exactly

• I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Hard

• Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Christmas

• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Thought
  • Design

• I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Guy

• I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Kings
  • Sons
  • Companions

• Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Year
  • Going
  • Within

• Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Light
  • Thoughts

• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
  • True

• Now that I've met you,Would you object toNever seeing each other again?'Cause I can't afford toClimb aboard you.No one's got that much ego to spend.So don't work your stuff,Because I've got troubles enough.No, don't pick on meWhen one act of kindness could beDeathly,Deathly,Definitely.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Work
  • Kindness
  • Ego

• The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Society
  • Health

• There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • You
  • Value

• Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Together
  • Society
  • Kindness