Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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