We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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