To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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