Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn w

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We are shaped and fashioned by those we love.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.