Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Think
  • Start

• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Country
  • Society
  • Political

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Political
  • Step

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Feel

• The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• I think when you take off that jacket and they see that ‘I LOVE GRANDMA’ T-shirt, they’re going to rip your heart out.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Heart
  • Think
  • See

• It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Sun
  • Leave
  • Heartache

• Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Want
  • Know
  • Decisions

• Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Advice

• And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Women
  • Wine
  • Sunset

• There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

  

  Vance Havner
  • World
  • Home
  • Culture

• Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Red
  • Rebel

• Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.

  

  Paul Buchheit
  • Opportunity
  • Habits
  • Block

• We should remember that they were not born with a lust for murdering Israelis.

  

  Avi Dichter
  • Born
  • Israelis
  • Murdering

• I cannot exist as a solo artist.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Artist
  • Exist
  • Solo

• We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • God
  • Free

• Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.

  

  Michael Keaton
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Enough

• The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Exist
  • Giving Up
  • Art Of Living