What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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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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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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