A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Remember to live.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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