The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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