A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe