All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
Interpretation
The ultimate achievement in life is to experience wonder and awe.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe suggests that the pinnacle of human experience is the ability to feel amazement. This implies that true fulfillment comes from the profound appreciation of the beauty and complexity of life, rather than material success or power.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to highlight the importance of appreciating life's wonders.
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.
You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
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