"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

-GOETHE

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

-GOETHE

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

-GOETHE

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

-GOETHE

"One can be instructed in society; one is inspired only in solitude."

- GOETHE

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."

-GOETHE

"Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her."

-GOETHE

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

-GOETHE

"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it."

-GOETHE

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

-GOETHE

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

-GOETHE

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

-GOETHE

“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”

-GOETHE

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."

-GOETHE

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

-GOETHE