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.
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 really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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