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.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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