He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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