Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman 

via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022 p. 13.  

Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman 

via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022, p. 12. 

Quotes 365: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 11

Quotes 344: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 "Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman 

via Sketchbook 9, 2010, p. 132

Quotes 36: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A [person] can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days." 

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author, scientist, and statesman

via Book of Commonplace 2017-2020, p. 125 

Quotes 16: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

–– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German novelist, poet, playwright, critic