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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”
― Friedich Nietzsche

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
― Goethe

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
― Basil King

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
― Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al

“Leap and the net will appear.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”
― Goethe

“What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everybody wants to be somebody,but nobody wants to grow... ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people--including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh--struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power generated in the creative force fields of Being and non-Being. (Beyond Religion, p. 124)”
― David N. Elkins

“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“nothing puts me so completely out of patience
as the utterance of a wretched commonplace
when I am talking from my inmost heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe