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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo 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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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