What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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 am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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To 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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