Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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