Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Biography | Inspiration Quotations | Motivation Quotes

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Motivational Quotations:

• “How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”

•  “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

•  “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”

•  “Paradise is always where love dwells.”

•  “A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another.”

•  “To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”

• “A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's”

•  “Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.”

  

   

• “A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”

•  “On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.”

•  “We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of reflection.”

•  “One learns taciturnity best among people without it, and loquacity among the taciturn.”

•  “A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.”

•  “Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”

•  “The flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter's wand at which the secret depths of the soul open. The inward world is the true world," said Vult; "the moonlight that shines into our hearts.”

  

   

• “The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.”

•  “Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.”

•  “Thus our actual path in life, as well as the course of our ideas, is often indicated by accident; the continuance only, and establishment of the one or the other, is dependent on our free will.”

•  “Fine minds are seldom fine souls.”