What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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 is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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