#heir

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#about #anything #avoid #destiny #does

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#finds #happens #most #own #person

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#clearly #laughable #men #more #nothing

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#objects #own #pictures #position #should

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#passions #powers #their #vices #virtues

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#character #laugh #more #nothing #people

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#came #chimney #continue #ever #hearth

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life #own #painter #paintings #soul

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#composition #enormous #fantasy #good #good taste

I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names. ↗

— Joe Gold

#everyone #gym #i #names #remembering