What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho 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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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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!
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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