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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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 you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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