As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Leap and the net will appear.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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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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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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