What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhen scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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 nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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