Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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