Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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