Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Misunderstood Quotations

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.