Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Sentence Starters pt. 1
Taken from the collected writing of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 28. August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, died 22. MĂ€rz 1832 in Weimar.
 Feel free to alter the pronouns to fit for your muse or your situation.
â I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. âÂ
â If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. â
â Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. â
â As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. â
â If I love you, what business is it of yours? â
â There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. â
â If youâve never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. â
â To think is easy. To act is hard. â
â Know thyself? If I knew myself, Iâd run away. â
â None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. â
â By seeking and blundering we learn. â
â A person hears only what they understand. â
â Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. â
â I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. â
â There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. â
â Knowing is not enough; we must apply. â
â Willing is not enough; we must do. âÂ
â Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. â
â I love those who yearn for the impossible. â
â Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. âÂ
â Nothing is worth more than this day. âÂ
â Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. âÂ
â All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. âÂ
â Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. âÂ
â We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. âÂ
â Everything is hard before it is easy. âÂ
â We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. âÂ
â I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. âÂ
â If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. âÂ
â Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. â
â We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens. â
â Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. â
â The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. â
â Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. â
â There is strong shadow where there is much light. â
â Sometimes I donât understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her! â
â Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. â
â All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. â
â If you donât feel it, youâll never get it. âÂ
â It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. â