All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
Interpretation
True freedom comes from self-control, and anything that provides freedom without it can lead to destruction.
In this quote, Goethe emphasizes the importance of self-control and personal accountability. He warns that while certain experiences or influences may seem liberating, if they do not empower us to take control of our own lives, they can be detrimental to our well-being and progress. The essence is that genuine liberty is not merely the absence of constraints but the ability to govern ourselves wisely.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasnβt answered you, He plans in your favor.
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Timeless, so age don't count in the booth _x000D_ When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.
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