Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love can do much, but duty more.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.