More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"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've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."
"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become."
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."