The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand no wonder they come to grief. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand no wonder they come to grief.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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