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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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I 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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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