More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nothing is worth more than this day."
"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."
"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"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."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."