All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Destiny”

“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
“The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.”
“The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.”
“Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?”
“Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.”
“Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?”
“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?”
“Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.”
“Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.”
“Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny”
“How circumscribed is woman's destiny!”

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