If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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To 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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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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