He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAnd all must follow in my wake.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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