Everything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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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 laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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