What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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 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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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