The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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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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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Remember to live.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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