We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverything transitory is but an image.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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