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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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 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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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