What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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