All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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