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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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