All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Interpretation
The sight of two people in love is something divine and wondrous.
This quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe suggests that the love between two individuals transcends ordinary experience, reaching a level of beauty and purity that is almost godlike. It highlights how love is not only a personal sentiment but also a magnificent display that is worthy of admiration, evoking a sense of wonder in those who observe it.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, one might quote this to express the beauty of the union.
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.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.
He who would love much has also much to suffer.
For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.
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