"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Life More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be." "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." "Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing." More In Life "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"― Friedrich Nietzsche "Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid."― John Wayne "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."― Horace Walpole