Johann Goethe

"We love only once; after that, it is not love but habit."

"The man who regards his own life as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit to live."

"Death is nature's expert advice to get busy and live."

"Character is destiny."

"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."

"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and to quietly respect what is unknowable."

"Passion rules the affections in all their expressions."

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person feel how warm it is to be alive."

"There are nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure."

"The greatest respect an artist can pay to public taste is to ignore it."

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day."

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul."

"The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph."

"The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it."

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

"Your duty is to act, not to judge the results of action."

"Architecture is frozen music."

"A man who is born with a creative mind is ambitious, industrious and bold."

"Everything in life is temporary. So if things are going good, enjoy it. It won't last forever. If things are going badly, don't worry because it won't last long either."

"He who is firm in will molds the world to himself."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Everybody has to start somewhere."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"There is a wisdom in the body which the consciousness does not know."

"What you can dream, you can create."

"The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak."