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 GOETHEThe heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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