Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe