What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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