"What do people mean when they talk..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.”

“If you want to understand poetry,You have to go to its origin,If you want to understand the poet,You have to go to the Poet's home.”

“Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.”

“Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.”

“All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.”

“When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

“It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.”

“The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.”

“Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.”