To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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