For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Remember to live.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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