More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
"If you would create something,you must be something."
"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
"This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."