Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To delay is the greatest of follies."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

"The greatest delight is in breaking through barriers."

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."

"The most painful state is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have."

"Wherefore, to this day, is striving after knowledge forbidden?"

"Art is concerned with the reproduction of appearances."

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

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."

"Daring to set boundaries is about respecting yourself."

"Everything which improves the condition of mankind is political."

"The way to get ahead is to start now."

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back."

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

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world all rests on perseverance."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Mystery is not something we need to fear; it is something to revere."

"One discovers oneself through action."

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."

"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dose makes that a thing is not a poison."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"If you love something, set it free."

"The beautiful feeling of creation comes when one recognizes order within a seeming chaos."

"The height of wisdom is to take things as they come with patience and forbearance."

"One is never satisfied with oneself so long as one feels he could do better."

"The flower fades, but the fragrance remains."

"A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer."

"There is no outer experience without inner experience."