Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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