I wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIn 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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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