#or

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#laughs #man #more #nothing #shows

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fools #fortune #good #good fortune #merit

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be different #born #different #later #man

Life is the childhood of our immortality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#immortality #life #our

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time. ↗

— Bernhard Goetz

#boy #carry #cowboys #did #feel

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#advance #becomes #developed #difficult #difficulties

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#everywhere #flash #joy #life #our

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#how #imagine #nowadays #stupid #whole

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#embrace #enhancement #enlightenment #less #light

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#blood #body #cause #dared #her