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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe And all must follow in my wake.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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I hope you find someone, who pours love like rain during monsoon, onto all broken parts of you.
Shruthi SagarShruthi Sagar The world kept breaking you and here you are- still soft, still loving, how strong of you to maintain your magic in a world where everyone loses their essence.
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Otto von BismarckOtto von Bismarck I’m sorry love scares me, I’ve only seen it end in pain.
Shruthi SagarShruthi Sagar If your heart is broken it doesn’t mean it can’t love again.
AurthurAurthur How is it that we mourn the shattered pieces of the love we willingly broke?
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Does anything at all make any sense? No offense! Is everything real or just a lens of pretense? Anyway, I feel that this moment is dying and now I’m done wrying and trying.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava In a world where insensitivity and indifference are overrated. Don’t lose faith in love and warmth. You may feel lost and worn out, but the most magical and the richest place will always be a kind heart.
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