If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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