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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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