We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAs soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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