Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Dinner

• The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Spirit
  • Eagle

• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Nobody owns me or my music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Nobody

• Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Dream
  • Angel
  • Shrugged

• The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Commerce
  • Conducted

• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Art
  • Lying

• A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • State
  • Peoples
  • Peculiarities