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Jean Paul Richter - From the Activity category:
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Aging category:
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Art category:
Art is not the bread, but the wine of life. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Character category:
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Children category:
The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Courage category:
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Criticism category:
Criticism often takes from the tree / Caterpillars and blossoms together. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Danger category:
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Friendship category:
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Gender category:
In women everything is heart, even the head. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Humanity category:
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Joy category:
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Light category:
A sky full of silent suns. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Memory category:
Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Mirrors category:
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 the reflection. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Moderation category:
Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Music category:
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Passion category:
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Pleasure category:
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Procrastination category:
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Reality category:
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Sadness category:
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Sleep category:
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Time category:
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. (Jean Paul Richter)
Jean Paul Richter - From the Words category:
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. (Jean Paul Richter)
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