In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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