I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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