I wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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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And all must follow in my wake.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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 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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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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