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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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