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!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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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.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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