Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.