More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."